Thoughts About Creation
Site Specific Installation, NB Haifa School of Design, 2003
Client: NB Haifa School of Design, Haifa, Israel Presented as part of the exhibition 10x10x14, the 14-meter-high sculpture is situated at the center of the building. Two stainless steel linear elements on the roof skylight start their journey down towards the ground floor. A wooden patch joins the abstract composition in the air, gradually turning it into a three-dimensional form. As it descends, it slowly becomes a surface that lands on the floor in the form of a table – an analogy about the process of creation from its source of light or inspiration through to its realization. The thought that might begin as a word, a sketch or a draft gradually turns into something tangible, part of physical reality. The resulting table symbolizes the drawing board, the place where new thoughts are born and repeat the process.
The analogy of this project is about the process of creation from its source of "light," or inspiration taken through to its realization. The thought that begins as some written words, a sketch, or a draft, gradually starts to take shape as a few lines, a shape, and then a form, until it turns into something tangible and concrete – a paragraph, a three-dimensional form – that becomes part of reality. The resulting table symbolizes the “drawing board,” the place where new thoughts are born.
