- Object Name:
- Omer Calendar
- Artist/Maker:
- Martin Wilner
- Bio:
- American, b. 1959
- Title:
- Sephirot IV
- Place Made:
- New York, New York, United States
- Date:
- 2007
- Medium:
- Ink on paper
- Dimensions:
- 11 1/4 × 11 1/4 in. (28.6 × 28.6 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Contemporary Judaica Acquisitions Committee Fund
- Accession Number:
- 2009-22.4
- Copyright:
- © Martin Wilner
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The seven drawings that comprise Sephirot are a "game piece" that take my ongoing time-based work into an exploration of omer, the seven-week period between Passover and Shavuot. Each week is sequentially represented by a Star of David, containing seven geometric elements. Using events of Jewish concern as a parameter, I created a drawing each day throughout this period. For the duration of the omer I became the proverbial "wandering Jew", and the drawings chronicle my journey. The omer binds the notion of Passover's freedom to Shavuot's practice of ritual. The ritualistic parameters and constraints that I select afford me greater creative freedom.
Sephirot IV
1. Livni Librescu- gave his life to save students at Virginia Tech on Yom Hashoah
2. New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg
3. Leonard Cohen and his new book of poetry, "Book of Longing"
4. Distributor of the Forward, 1899
5. David Halberstam author/journalist
6. Kabbalistic charm from Jerusalem - prized object of Nathan Englander
7. Alice Neel
Sephirot IV
1. Livni Librescu- gave his life to save students at Virginia Tech on Yom Hashoah
2. New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg
3. Leonard Cohen and his new book of poetry, "Book of Longing"
4. Distributor of the Forward, 1899
5. David Halberstam author/journalist
6. Kabbalistic charm from Jerusalem - prized object of Nathan Englander
7. Alice Neel
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.