DI ZUN & KATCHKES (DUCKS) The Sun & Ducks
Paintings by Wendy Lessick Bookatz
3-8 November 2026
THE DUCKS WERE ALWAYS THERE now family lore, & markers of, maybe, renewal.
Read the original story here.
DI ZUN & KATCHKES connects Wendy’s Jewish family story & the world from where they came in the Pale of Settlement. The Yiddish title is deliberate, connecting the old world of her father’s family & its ducks with their new world of South Africa & Australia.
Wendy gives the exhibition a Yiddish voice, a shtetl voice.
YouTube video. 28 October 2026. These were some of the smaller paintings I had been working on. On this morning I had laid them out around my place. The ink was still wet, & there was much to do. Some needed work; most were ready to hang.
Music: Royce Isacowitz
Media
Ducks Waddle Into Sydney Gallery
Link to the Australian Jewish News article
My sincere appreciation to Jessica Abelsohn, National Deputy Editor, Australian Jewish News, for giving me the opportunity to share my work.
Un Azoy?
And So
Tants, Kinderlach, Tants 2026 (Detail) Acrylic on Canvas 152cm x 152cm
Blue Eye’d Duck (Detail) 2026 Acrylic on Canvas 76cm (w) x 61cm (h)
