Visual Artist – David Kassan ✔Certified
Impactful 🟪: 88% – Sam Goldofsky (2015, oil on panel, 45 x 35 inches) was the first portrait in the EDUT Project, depicting an Auschwitz survivor with his concentration camp tattoo fading on his crossed arms. Kassan spent months building translucent layers to capture not just Goldofsky’s weathered skin but his entire lifetime of resilience. The painting transforms hyperrealism into historical testimony, proving portrait painting can document memory in ways photography cannot. Personal grief about his grandfather’s lost story became a decade-long mission to preserve survivor voices before they disappear forever.
