Excerpts from the art essay by Inna Rogatchi (C).
September 2018.
Tribes. The Sons of Israel: Special Art Project
Inna Rogatchi (C). The Tribes Song. Sons of Israel series. 2017.
For three years, I have been working on a special art project depicting The Tribes in the way of metaphorical art and settled in landscape of the Eretz Israel. After making all the shooting in Israel, I have continuing my long enough research through various Biblical sources and worked on the concept of the series. In the project, The Tribes are conveyed in the symbolic way corresponding to the vision of the each Tribe by their father Jacob. The allusive ‘portraits’ of the Tribes are supplemented by my fine art photography works of the landscapes of the Land of Israel which are setting the symbolic ‘portraits’ of the Tribes into the atmosphere and spirit of the live landscape of the Eretz Israel. Tribes in the full name of the project are called The Sons of Israel.
After that, I completed my project of three years in no time. I was totally amazed on the speed of its completion. The work that normally would need a month was done in a week; the other stage which normally would take from a week to ten days, and I am an avid worker, took just a couple of days, amazingly. I told to my husband that I have had a special feeling that somebody – Somebody – was carrying me on, that I was acting with a mighty help. 
Inna Rogatchi (C). Bilvavi. The Hills of Galilee. The Sons of Israel series. 2012-2018.
I came to help of my artist husband in my project, incorporating some fragment of his great paintings from the famed Forefathers series into my fine art collages for the Tribes, notably, his famous Lion of Judah created in 2008, the image known widely due to its multiplied publications. I also included in the project’s video presentation the Michael’s important painting of Jacob, his other Biblical works, and his recent art work which was the one of the prototypes for the special tapestry at the Begin Centre in Jerusalem.
Creating a special musical art video as the Tribes presentation, I had no question on what would be its music. Bilvavi, of course. I have asked leading London Rabbi Lionel Rosenfeld for the permission to use the record of their great Shabbaton Choir’s splendid performance for our joint commemoration. The response from our dear friend came within a couple of minutes.
Tribes. The Sons of Israel musical art video :
The Connection of Us All
Since the moment when the unique melody of Bilvavi has become the a special dimension of the video of our The Sons of Israel project, I am thinking on many generations of Jewish people throughout the history and their interconnections. There are so many inter-connections between the all parts of these stories of spiritual overcoming the hatred and destruction that our enemies are throwing at us during all our history, and in the painful realities of our days, among the people we know and love.
Inna Rogatchi (C). Benjamin. The Tribes. 2014.