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LIGHT page G13

Chanukah, it creates a bridge to different things for me and I
my past, to my family and to my think people will come up with
future," said Mr. Lipnick, who is their own interpretations."
married to a language teacher
In her menorah, Ms. Da Silva
and has three children. "Like the employed a technique of coloring
bridges of San Francisco, the metal that she uses in her nor-
lighting of the menorah takes us mal body of work. She coats the
to a different place."
metal with gesso, an agent used
to prepare canvas for painting
and then tints it with colored pen-
cils. "I love the subtlety of colored
Marilyn Da Silva drew on her metal," said Ms. Da Silva, who is
own experiences with Jewish 43 and lives in Pinole, Calif.,
friends when she created her north of Berkeley. "Some people
menorah for the show. Made up might not even notice the color-
of nine separate units, the meno- ing on the metal."
rah, made of copper, brass and
Ms. Da Silva knew in high
silver, focuses on the family and school metal shop that she would
traditional objects of the home. end up working with the medi-
There is a chest of 'drawers, a pot- um and studied meta smith and
ted plant with a snake, a book, jewelry design at Bowling Green
a child's block, a clock, a mailbox, State University, where she
a suitcase and a teapot and cup. earned her bachelor's degree, and
The shamas is a beehive and Indiana University, where she
each of the other candleholders got her master's. She is now head
has one or two bees on it to link of the jewelry and metal arts de-

Marilyn Da Silva

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it to the center candle.
partment at California
Bridge
"I was trying to view
Robert Lipnick, College of Arts and
Chanukah as a non-Jew,"
Crafts in Oakland.
1995
said Ms. Da Silva, who
Ceramic
The menorah follows
was raised in a Presby-
directly on the heels on -
terian home in Akron,
a project of 15 candle
Ohio. "Growing up with
snuffers which detail the
Jewish friends, I saw the great story of the house fire which
similarities in the importance of destroyed 85 percent of Ms. Da
family values and the strength of Silva and her husband Jack's pos-
loved ones and the home. For sessions. Her husband, also a
Jews and non- Jews, the holidays metalsmith, created a menorah
are a time when people gather to- from granite and sterling silver
gether and family and roots are for the show. "It felt very natur-
most important."
al to proceed from the candle
The challenge was finding nine snuffers to something that held
identifiable items which worked a candle," said Ms. Da Silva, who
with her theme. "The images I has no children.
came up with symbolized a lot of LIGHTS page G16

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