This quote
connects with my painting Air’s Gaze (2016), describing the
feeling-memory, the source from which it was ‘born’. ‘The existence of the terrible in every
particle of the air’ writes Rilke. We breathe the same air; the air (if you can
call it that) at the Nazi concentration camps in WWII, the air at the night of
the attack on Samakh in April 1948, the air when I visited the place where this
town used to be, as I stood on the asphalt of the car-park in the summer of 2009.
‘You breathe it in as part of something transparent; but within you it
precipitates, hardens, acquires angular, geometrical forms in among your organs’.
'ima' initially was derived from 'invisible mother-artist' and the word 'mother' in Hebrew, my language of origin. This method was used in order to deconstruct the cultural constructs Motherhood and Artist, as well as Kibbutz childhood. Today 'ima' stands for 'in-visible mother-artist'. This method is still used in a new PhD research at Loughborough University.
Monday, 5 December 2016
‘The existence of the terrible in every
particle of the air. You breathe it in as part of something transparent; but
within you it precipitates, hardens, acquires angular, geometrical forms in
among your organs; for all the torments and horrors suffered at places of
execution, in torture chambers, in madhouses, in operating theatres, under the
arches of bridges in late autumn – all this is possessed of a tenacious
permanence, all of it persists and, jealous of all that is, clings to its own
frightful reality. People would prefer to be able to forget much of it; sleep
files away gently at the grooves in the brain, but dreams drive it away and
trace the lines anew. And they wake, panting, and dissolve the gleam of a
candle in the dark, and drink in the
half-lit solace as if it were sugar water. …’
From: Rainer Maria Rilke, The
Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, p. 53.
הקטע הנ"ל
מתקשר לציור 'מבט אוויר' (2016) ומתאר בדיוק את ההרגשה-זכרון שממנה נוצר
הציור. הקיום של הנורא בכל חלקיק אוויר. אנחנו נושמים את אותו אוויר; האוויר (אם
אפשר לקרוא לזה כך) במחנות ההשמדה במלה"ע השנייה, האוויר שהיה בליל ההתקפה על
סמח' באפריל 1948, האוויר שהיה כשבאתי לבקר במקום בו הייתה פעם העיירה, עומדת על
אספלט במגרש חנייה בקיץ 2009. 'את/ה
נושמ/ת אותו כמשהו שקוף אך בתוכך הוא מתגלגל, מתקשה, מקבל צורות זוויתיות,
גאומטריות בתוך כלי הגוף האורגניים'. (מתוך: רשימותיו של מאלטה לאורידס בריגה, 1909. כאן תרגום שלי. ינג).
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