By Ripu Bhatia on Stuff…
Wellington-based artist Annaliese Brown started making ceramic golems four years ago and hasn’t been able to stop.
“In this room, I think there’s about a hundred, give or take,” she says. “It just keeps growing, and I thought maybe I’d move on by now, but I can’t, it’s sort of a deep obsession at this point.”
Her new exhibition Golem is on of Thistle Hall in Wellington until November 13, and explores the idea of finding harmony while existing between different cultures.
A golem is a creature in Jewish mysticism that is viewed as a guardian.
“Golem is a Yiddish word that comes from a Hebrew word that means incomplete or unformed,” says Brown, who is Jewish.
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