The Snapshots in the Dark (1990-1991)
A series that is based on based on photos Yael took while traveling to Provence, France. In it, she tried to capture memories and the light-and-dark moments one sees when driving past trees by mimicking the kindergarten art technique of crayon scratch art (painting a paper plate with crayons in bright colors; covering it with black crayon; then drawing/scratching the black away to reveal the colors.) The colors shimmer against the black. These are landscapes, but not in a traditional sense, since they lack the most essential landscape attributes of a horizon line and formal perspective. Space materializes from the tension between elements that appear to be on the surface and ones that exist deep into the canvas. They evoke internal states and forces of nature, with hints of human presence and influence.