Ruah Edelstein
Artist
סולם יעקב
Sulam Yaakov
(Jacob's Ladder)
To all who try and keep on trying.
graphite on paper | photography | digital painting
5:40 min | 16:9 | sound | 2019
Sulam Yaakov (סולם יעקב Hebrew: Jacob’s Ladder). The ladder is the connection between earth and heaven that the biblical patriarch dreams about. Often a person is torn and anxious in their many attempts at climbing. While we try again and again there is a rhyme-like rhythm dynamic in circumstances, breathing of elements, glitches. We don’t know what all that means. We may not know for generations. Sometimes not directly, but we achieve what we desire, yet there is still no understanding of how it happened.
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Seven Generations, still from the film
Sulam Yaakov press card