The Motivation
'1,053' is a project that calls for the acknowledgement of the Yemenite, Eastern, and Balkan Children Affairs with a campaign that maps out the 1053 boys and girls whose disappearances were reviewed by three separate State commissions of inquiry.
The Format
The milk carton embodies within it the historical context of the missing children campaign known to us mainly in the US, but it also represents a substitute for breast milk, which asserts its choice with a painful meaning. I extracted from each report the words that cry out the failure and colored milk cartons with them, representing the number of children. Each investigative committee was given a different color, while children whose fate, according to the committees, was unknown - were colored black.
Social Impact
The project received numerous reactions. I had the opportunity to discuss it on Knesset Channel’s night TV show with Hani Zubida and on the ‘Culture Agent’ show with Kobi Meidan on Kan channel. The installation is currently displayed at the Yemenite Jewish Heritage Museum at Rehovot.
Each boy and girl are represented on a milk carton alongside their parents' testimonies
Pixels as an infographic tool
To illustrate the scale, instead of a wall of cartons, I created an infographic with 1,053 rectangles compressed into a single mobile screen
The milk carton corresponds with the missing kids awareness campaign in the USA, but also represents the absence of breast milk
