In
Birth of Figure, Tal R humorously depicts his process of artistic
creation. Drawing tongue-in-cheek reference to Courbet's L'Origine
du Monde, Tal R's earth mother is the opposite of sexual:
simply a giant pair of cartoon-ish legs, she perversely spurts
out one masterpiece after the next. Surrounded by the grotesque
totems of her making, they dumbly stare in bleak confrontation.
The chequered pattern of the bed suggests the conceptual stratagem
of chess.