Just because it's B-day at ABC Wednesday I thought I'd bring you these babies and their blankets at bedtime.
Wang Fu's "Beneath the Stars" (1999)at the Israel Museum's exhibition "Good Night"
The exhibition aims to probe "the rite of passage marking the transition from the exertion of the day to the repose of the night and the sweetness of slumber."
You can click through here and see all the contemporary art on the subject at the museum's Youth Wing.
A most unusual work of art with some powerful ideas to consider! Most interesting!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link to the museum show. I found there a neat video of cute little bats :)
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That is just SO sweet! Lovely post for our B week, Dina!
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For a minute there, I thought the photo was something from a Japanese artist because the babies were asleep on the floor.
ReplyDeletethis reminded me of the children's book Madeline and how the girls all sleep in their dormatory
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Those are so cute.
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Rose, ABC Wednesday Team
This is brilliant! How very cute.
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ReplyDeletewow, that is quite interesting art. must be nice to see that in real!
ReplyDeleteas for the visitation stones; interesting to hear that this is most likely a term the americans made up... :) i was wondering what you think is the origin of placing pebbles on graves? is it indeed a remnant of earlier times when it was done to protect the buried bodies from wild animals?
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ReplyDeleteYeah, it's just an ancient custom, putting a stone on the grave. Maybe to keep the animals from digging up the body. Or--as I remember my rabbi quipping half a century ago--"maybe it was to keep the spirits IN !" i.e. so they would not come out and haunt or visit the living.
A very interesting but nice take on the prompt.
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