Look at the rapt attention of these kids to an 11-minute DVD projection at the Israeli section of the new fine-arts wing at Israel Museum!You too can be mesmerized by a 7-minute video of DeadSee .
Artist Sigalit Landau (born 1969) explains her DeadSee creation:
A cord of two hundred and fifty meters penetrates five hundred watermelons forming a six meter spiral raft in the saturated salt waters of the Dead Sea. The spiral turns as a whirlpool reversed from it s normal direction.
I am floating locked inside the spiral layers between the center and the periphery of the sweet raft. I am reaching out against the direction of the turning raft towards a small area in the spiral where the fruit is wounded, red and exposed like myself to the sting of the salt. The salt solution of the dead sea enables everything to float on its illusive surface. The spiral gradually becomes a thin green line abandoning the viewer.
The film was shot in mid August 2004 in the area of Sdom south of Masada .
(The woman with watermelons in water is for W-day at ABC Wednesday. And the spiral is a gift to blog-friend Cloudia of Comfort Spiral in Hawaii.)
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UPDATE Jan. 26, 2014: More about this artist at http://israel21c.org/culture/inside-the-fertile-mind-of-sigalit-landau/
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I won't shoot at the Red Cross (or at the Magen David Adom), so I will keep silent on this one.
ReplyDeleteInteresting post for W day. Carver, ABC-Wed. Team
ReplyDeleteA real interesting piece of art. I hope the woman survived the highly concentrated salt water.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing !
Thanks for your participation in ABC Wednesday!
Wil, ABC Team.
Hmmmm, not impressed straight away, but maybe it will grow on me as a creative idea. Then again, maybe not...
ReplyDeleteWow, amazing. I watched the video and kept wishing there was music...
ReplyDeleteMakes one want to search for spirals.
ReplyDeletePlease have a good Wednesday.
It's sort of zenlike
ReplyDeleteROG, ABC Wednesday team
Sincere gratitude, Dear Dina;
ReplyDeleteboth for this dedication,
and for your comment at
my post today. It meant
a lot to me
coming from you.
Shalom from Honolulu,
Comfort Spiral
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Wonderful!
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Rose, ABC Wednesday!
Well..interesting..maybe it does grow on you.
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hello beautiful Dina- powerful art-arriving to the center of the spiral and the healing, the transcendence of the soul to the resurrected floating on the sea of life.
ReplyDelete(kids are so spoiled by technology.smiles)
shalom love and light
ps beautiful Dina, I am enjoying my new profile image.
ReplyDeleteI can chant as I blog oooooooooommmmm.haha.
have a magical day.
shalom love and light
It's a gift for Art too. Watermelons are his all time favorite fruit. He was aghast to discover that his only daughter was allergic to it.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of our National Coach Museum.
ReplyDeleteall i could think of is how anyone be naked in the dead sea. i was in it once, and it burned me sooo much down there....had to jump out and go in some fresh water to clear out
ReplyDeletelooks like an enjoyable time
when time races like a bullet