torah cover for storahtelling
The act of putting on the sefer torah cover is called ʻdressing the torah,ʼ and so it follows that to remove it is an act of undressing and revealing.
Storahtelling, a NY based company that reinterprets communal prayer experiences, reveals the torah, interpretation as a going through layers, to get to the heart of the text, while acknowledging and admiring each layer yet knowing that one can always go deeper, expanding it further...
This sefer torah cover for Storahtelling builds on ʻThe ʻMaternal Torah – Torat Imechaʼ that combine elements of a traditional sefer torah cover, with a womanʼs corset. Torah is often described in traditional learning circles as a feminine object. The torah is held, kissed, even symbolically married to. The corset seems to be a perfect metaphor for Torah, it gives shape, support, and constrains.
This Sefer Torah Dress focuses on the image of the cleavage and the act of undressing. At the front the cover has four straps, to be unfastened as part of the ritual of undressing the Torah. The four straps resonate with the four different parts of PaRDeS (Pashat, Remez, Drash and Sod), the four ways that text can be explored and interpreted. This cover reflects on how clothing reveals and conceals in layers of depth just as the text must first be revealed at its basic level and is only understood when delved in through a process of exploration.
click to see a slideshow of the construction of this cover
Storahtelling, a NY based company that reinterprets communal prayer experiences, reveals the torah, interpretation as a going through layers, to get to the heart of the text, while acknowledging and admiring each layer yet knowing that one can always go deeper, expanding it further...
This sefer torah cover for Storahtelling builds on ʻThe ʻMaternal Torah – Torat Imechaʼ that combine elements of a traditional sefer torah cover, with a womanʼs corset. Torah is often described in traditional learning circles as a feminine object. The torah is held, kissed, even symbolically married to. The corset seems to be a perfect metaphor for Torah, it gives shape, support, and constrains.
This Sefer Torah Dress focuses on the image of the cleavage and the act of undressing. At the front the cover has four straps, to be unfastened as part of the ritual of undressing the Torah. The four straps resonate with the four different parts of PaRDeS (Pashat, Remez, Drash and Sod), the four ways that text can be explored and interpreted. This cover reflects on how clothing reveals and conceals in layers of depth just as the text must first be revealed at its basic level and is only understood when delved in through a process of exploration.
click to see a slideshow of the construction of this cover
women of the book
women of the book is an international jewish art project that invited female artists to reinterpret the Torah. Each artist was given a sedra and some parchment.
details of my contribution will be online soon...
details of my contribution will be online soon...
album cover for the nigun project
the nigun project is a collection of traditional nigunim (wordless melodies) reinterpreted by the musician Jeremiah Lockwood and collaborators. The cover is a multi-layered silkscreen print, based on the concept of a palimpsest (parchment where the original image/text is erased then reused, but the original comes through and forms a multi-layered image). The past cannot be fully erased, it always has a way of pushing itself into the present.
