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Ascent

Ascent 54x43x30cm

Sustenance

These works fuse clay with fabric, wire, and screen-printed Hebrew scripts. Consisting of bonded and reiterated elements, they reflect on the basic human need to connect and nature’s malleable way of reproduction. Clay vessels are emblems of our primal necessities, as containers for carrying food and water. In these distinctive works, they are also carriers and supporters of delicate porcelain parchments inscribed with sacred prayers and cherished handwritten words.

Potent yet delicate these works present ideas of personal, cultural, and historical significance. Relating to my place of origin, Israel, they convey a transcendence of time, evoking the wish to comfort and protect, to nestle and embrace. To keep the perishable timeless.

Ascent 54x43x30cm
Ascent 54x43x30cm
Ascent 54x43x30cm
Ascent 54x43x30cm
Artist statement

ASCENT
This artwork is about connection, and the human need for comfort and fortitude. Comprised of reiterated bonded elements, the structure reflects on nature’s malleable way of reproduction and its way of supporting its vulnerable elements.
Carried by the form are delicate porcelain parchments inscribed with Hebrew text. Wrapped within a secret prayer script ‘Shema Israel’ wishing for well-being, are my father’s handwritten words describing a childhood journey to a place of longing.
Offering comfort, familiar and distinctive, they are a part of me. These cherished scripts, marked into the permanence of ceramics, emulates my desire to nestle and embrace. To keep the perishable timeless.
This work presents ideas of personal, cultural, and universal significance. Potent yet delicate it conveys a fusion of many disparate elements, clay to fabric, nature to man-made, past to present, frozen moment to eternity.
Dynamic and rising upwards, it is an object of fortitude and unification.