The above approach,
especially in the areas
of the rejuvenation of prayer
and holiday observance &
verbal oriented meditation
is commonly practiced
in many synagogues and havurot.
Our innovation
is its implementation
in the visual arts.There is a saying:
“You are what you eat”.
We would change it to:
“You are what you
hang up on your walls”.
Certainly, the quality and direction
of a person’s daily visual stimuli
must have an influence
on his/her mood
and can be a springboard
to profound spiritual meditation.
We would argue that
in the Judaic tradition,
usually thought of as
essentially iconoclastic,
according to the misinterpretation
of the percept,
not to make a “graven image”,
there are many areas
which are especially appropriate
to visual meditation
and a source of inspiration
for the artist.
1. The Sacred Letters or the Hebrew letters
according to the scribal style
that appears in the Torah scroll.2. Meditations and Imaginings
on the Jewish Star
(in this example,
a different view of the Holocaust),
the Tree of Life diagram of the sephirot
and visions of
the Third Temple and Future Jerusalem .3. Images of the Dialogue-Antilogue series ,
suggesting through
abstract forms and archetypes
the intimate relationship
between a man and his wife,
the most potent kabbalistic
metaphor for spiritual connection.4. In general, abstract art, or more precisely
illusionist or “gestalt” art,
can be become
a strong stimulant to meditation,
since it invites
the active participation of the viewer
with the endless possibility
of seeing “new things”,
thus eliciting multi-layered
expansive consciousness.
5. The use of the Golden Section
(Fibonacci series), Cubes and Supercubes,
Spiral Helixes and Fractals,
all of which are hinted at
in Jewish philosophy
and in particular the Kabbalah.Finally we can our suggest our Torah based sites:
Parshat HaShavua - the weekly Torah Reading
Since “seeing is believing”
we invite you to test our “thesis”
by viewing samples
of our work at our web site.
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