Nur al Fahm 2022-2023 

Solar Light Mosaic for the entrance of the public library of the Palestinian-Israeli city of Um al Fahm, Israel.

 

2,5 x 2,5 x 0,60m

 

A relief inspired by the shape of the charcoal stacks that gave the city its name.

These reminded us of Claude Monet’s series of haystack painting, which Wassily Kandinsky famously mentions as facilitating his revelatory moment of realisation that a picture didn’t need to have a subject.

Kandinksy forgets to mention that the Islamic art tradition had been predominantly abstract for some 1200 then.

Nur al Fahm combines the shape of the charcoal- and haystacks with Monet’s distinctive color palette.