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About the artwork
Actively involved in the development of children in crisis around the globe, David Kracov pioneered ‘Life Saving Art’, wherein the proceeds of created art are directed towards organizations working with rehabilitating children under difficult circumstances. ‘The Book of Life’ was created as part of a line for Charbad’s Children of Chernobyl, the only organization in the world that permanently evacuates and treats sick children from the Chernobyl region. To date, with the help of the artist, CCOC has saved the lives of over 2,600 children. Sculpted as a tribute to the extraordinary life of Rabbi Yossi Raichik, director of CCOC, the laser cut metal base appears as a children’s fairytale book, filled with text of poems, excerpts of diaries, and songs, written by children who died at Auschwitz, with the main poem being “The Butterfly”, by Pavel Friedmann, who was 13 years old when he wrote it. Brightly colored butterflies erupt from the wavering pages, each one individually hand bent and painted to represent the children that escaped Chernobyl’s nuclear disaster, and with the help of the charity, have been given a chance at a new life. His signature trademark, the butterfly, represents the delicacy and value of a child’s life, and contributes to the innovation’s resplendent atmosphere of hope, freedom, and rising from the past that once enveloped them.
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