In recent years, Tzvia Harris Livne's paintings have focused
on two main topics: photographs of her childhood from family albums or photographs of ruins and sites that she documents throughout
the Golan Heights.  These two topics combine a similar need
for connection to people and places that are gone.
The process of painting allows her to actively and continuously observe the images of her family members and the environment she grew up in. It provides access to those people and places
and allows her to remember forgotten details.
Today, following the war, those paintings gain an additional layer
of meaning; they represent a clinging to the only remaining certainty– the past, as our present is unstable and our future is shrouded in fog.

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The need to paint the ruins of the Golan comes from the urge
to observe the remnants of those who lived here before us. Throughout this region, you can find countless testimonies
to the communities that lived there until the Six Day War.
In her paintings she tries to document them and restore some
of their dignity. Here too, the ongoing war changed her point of view; Today she see herself in these ruins, which reflect a future
that threatens to come and turn our fate into their fate.
They are still here, but in essence they are gone.