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During the pandemic, Jessica Tamar Deutsch has been considering exile as she relearns how to paint.
Specifically, she’s been thinking about the title character in “The Lost Princess,” a story by Rabbi Nachman, the mystic founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement, about a young woman who disappears from her home after displeasing her kingly father.
“In short, this princess is exiled from her home for like a million years,” Deutsch, her palms tucked in the sleeves of her sweater, fingers fiddling with what looked to be a roll of painter’s tape, said in a Zoom call. “I was thinking, ‘She’s in isolation: What did she potentially gain from that journey?’”