Salo Rawet, Hanukkah Lamp In Search of Miracles, Lead, wood, copper, glass, olive oil, and cotton wicking, 1995
Object Name:
Hanukkah Lamp
Artist/Maker:
Salo Rawet
Bio:
b. Brazil, 1955
Title:
In Search of Miracles
Place Made:
Oakland, California, United States
Date:
1995
Medium:
Lead, wood, copper, glass, olive oil, and cotton wicking
Dimensions:
7 1/2 × 36 × 3 1/2 in. (19.1 × 91.4 × 8.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Purchase: Gift of Peter Lane
Accession Number:
1999-7a-lll

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In his use of test tubes for oil containers, Salo Rawet associates the ancient miracle of Hanukkah with the search for a cure for AIDS, cancer, and other plagues of our time. The artist proposes here an alternative version of lighting the Hanukkah lamp, extending beyond the traditional eight days of the holiday to symbolize continuous cycles of the sun and moon. In this new interpretation, the lamp becomes and embodiment of hope and an expression of "human attempts to intervene and support the divine process of exuding miracles in our daily life."

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