While researching at The Central Zionist Archives Littwitz discovered a folder of sketches of new forests to be funded by the Jewish National Fund. Planted before and after the establishment...
While researching at The Central Zionist Archives Littwitz discovered a folder of sketches of new forests to be funded by the Jewish National Fund. Planted before and after the establishment of Israel, they followed the desire to "make the desert bloom!” while gradually concealing the existence of what came before under imported trees. For Littwitz the uniformity of the archive sketches made for different forests seems like a template for an ideology. Translating this image into an unfixed chalkboard drawing was for Littwitz a way of materialising the malleability of history, as the image echoes the aim of the Zionist movement to create the "European dream" in the new country, drawing on European Romanticism.