Pieces of Sky, 2005

Installation 3.40x 5.60 meters

Made of glued pieces of painted tracing paper.

Acrylic, ink, watercolor, pen on tracing paper.

)The Sabbath Evening Prayer)

"And orders the stars in their watches in the firmament according to thy will."

When the world was still uncharted, travellers used the stars as a map. This work was developed as part of the “Japana / Silk Road” project, and later developed a life of its own. The project also constitutes a further step in the artist’s life-long interest in and observation of the stars in different geographical locations across the world. It is not an astronomically-accurate work, but rather a random scattering of stars across painted blue tracing paper, creating a patchwork of “pieces of sky”. The work was presented as an installation as a floating carpet in a single room – open on the floor, like the maps consulted by medieval travellers. The positioning creates a sense of disorientation, of floating above the sky.