Risk
How Fear of Intimacy Threatens Reality
“Tolstoy & I February 25, 2025” Pencil on book pages 11”x 8.5” Aviva Rahmani
In the story of Dorothy and The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s world is shattered by a tornado and she finds herself in a strange world with three strange male companions. They each have an agenda they will realize: home, heart, courage and a brain.
Meanwhile, our real world seems to be undergoing its own tornado of shattering events: not just of climate cycles and the availability of fresh clean water, but intransigent calamities scattered across the globe: in Gaza, in Sudan, in Ukraine to name just a few. From what I read, many young men feel adrift in a shattered world of splintered gender…