AFTER THE FIRE solo exhibit 3/1 - 4/16/23 @Agua Caliente Park Gallery, Tucson, AZ

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Beth Surdut Art for the Mind & Body

Beth Surdut Art for the Mind & Body wildlife art, essays, commissions

Beth Surdut Art for the Mind & Body wildlife art, essays, commissions Beth Surdut Art for the Mind & Body wildlife art, essays, commissions Beth Surdut Art for the Mind & Body wildlife art, essays, commissions

CUSTOM TALLIT, R'FUAH SHLEIMAH HEALING, & JOURNEY SCARVES

Kavanah/intention

Order a custom designed tallit Pricing starts at $800

Order a custom designed tallit Pricing starts at $800

Order a custom designed tallit Pricing starts at $800

#Judaica #tallis #tallit

 I see a prayer shawl as an invitation to step out of the chatter of daily life and into a meditative space.To create your portable house of prayer,  we work together to find the words, colors , and forms that call to you to open your inner spirit. Designs and prayers are drawn with gold-flaked resist onto 14" x 72" luscious white sand-washed crepe de chine silk. Elegant silk charmeuse, which has a pearlescent glow,  is used for the atarah and corners. Each separate piece is painted with fiber-reactive dyes, then steamed for hours to set the dyes. After washing, cutting, and sewing the elements into place,  wool tztzit strings from Israel are tied in a traditional gematria of knots and wraps that numerically translate as "God is One." 

                   PRICING STARTS AT $800  

It is advisable to order far in advance of a designated celebration, if possible.

Create your Journey Scarf

Order a custom designed tallit Pricing starts at $800

Order a custom designed tallit Pricing starts at $800

Journey scarves are personalized to clients' stories and needs.  They are worn as memories, as meditations, celebrations, and as reminders that there is always beauty to be found in this world.

Some include prayers or intentions-- chesed, kaddish, emet in Hebrew or in any language-- amidst symbolic images such as landscapes and spirit animals.

Pricing for large scarves starts at $400

Small $160

Give a r'fuah shleimah healing prayer scarf

Order a custom designed tallit Pricing starts at $800

Give a r'fuah shleimah healing prayer scarf

 

History~ A tallit client came to me  when her friend was going through breast cancer treatment and had lost her hair--  Could I make a silk head scarf with a healing prayer? 

  In this scarf, the first of many for all sorts of tender times, are the Hebrew words from the Misheberach prayer: r'fuah shleimah-- complete healing.

Just as you wouldn't send yourself a get well card, give a r'fuah scarf as a gift. I will drop everything I'm doing to make one for you.

30" squares or 8" x 54" ~ $160 

larger sizes available

Custom designed, hand lettered and painted Judaica

Hiddur mitzvah

When my Ukrainian  grandfather was 18 years old, his two brothers, studying to be Torah scribes, were murdered by Cossacks.  He came to America in 1905 and fathered 3 sons. Designingbe prayer shawls, chuppahs, Torah covers, and healing scarves is a way to say Kaddish for family members each time I hand letter a prayer.

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Choosing a prayer

    Part of the process, if you choose to do so, is working together to find the words that call to you to open your inner spirit

tallit/tallis, Healing Prayers, Torah cover, chuppah

Hudson River Valley  scene painted on a Hebrew prayer shawl for a musical Bat Mitzvah girl. Guitar n

  

Psalm 96:1 ~ O sing unto Adonai a new song, sing all the earth!

Hudson River Valley scene painted on a Hebrew prayer shawl for a musical Bat Mitzvah girl whose name means dawn. The guitar neck becomes a tree of life and a poppy emanating light signifies her grandfather Papi who helped her with her Torah portion.

Poppies and Wheat tallit-- commissioned to  celebrate a lifelong friendship between two women in their 80s.

"May Adonai lift up his face unto you and give you peace."

CHAI and LAV

The challenge: pink, hearts, flowers, and "live, laugh, love."  

The atarah is Genesis 31:49

May Adonai keep watch between you and me, when we are absent one from another.  I offered this as a suggestion to the mother who commmisioned this for one of her daughters because, she told me, "I would like her to feel that I am wrapping my arms around her when she wears her prayer shawl."

Psalm104:24 How manifold are Thy works, O the Lord! In wisdom hast Thou made them all; the earth is full of Thy creatures. Designed for a budding marine biologist who expressly asked for dolphins and orcas. These animals do not live harmoniously, yet here, they happily cavort, each on separate parts of an ocean. I painted an agelfish in the center, because everyone needs an angel at their back.

If not now, when? asked Hillel on Autumn's #tallit with aspen and maple leaves representing NM and Canadian roots.

painited silk prayer shawl with blooming barrel cactus, blue sky, purple and pale yellow mountains

Desert Bloom Tallit with a Judah HaLevi poem beginning on the atarah and continuing across the sides of the tallit.

  

My heart cries out to you, Please draw near to me. 

The moment I reach out for you, 

I find you reaching in for me.    

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mussar

As a deer longs for water, so do I long for Thee, Elohim. Psalm 42:2

Tallit for a mussar teacher

quail mother and two juvenile quail painting on  silk

Isaiah 58:11~ And thou shall be like a watered garden , and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. 

Sensing she would die within a year,  an extraordinary woman who many times turned down death's invitation, commissioned this legacy gift for her sister. The recipient chose a quail mother and two youngsters to represent herself and two sons. On the corners, Hebrew family names. 

Druid's path prayer shawl with yellow dandelion, green pines, and full moon

The first and, so far, only request for the Shema on this tallit  that includes a hardy dandelion that can grow in the most difficult circumstances.

Oceania

Blessed are You Adonai, King of the Universe, that such as these are in Your world. A girl from a family of high achievers learned to overcome her learning challenges. Her places of joy and awe are underwater with ocean creatures often thought of as unusual, sometimes, scary or unattractive.

Tzedek tallit

Most interested in social justice, the owner finds his peace and joy  swimming in the ocean.


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Meet Beth Surdut April 1, 2023, noon-2 @Agua CalieNte Park

See you at the Ranch House Gallery! This event feeds your spirit, not your body, so bring a picnic to this beautiful oasis in the Tucson desert.

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