One Jewish New Year ritual is to enjoy apples dipped in honey to symbolize a blessing for having a sweet new year. This work captures the essence of the Jewish perspective of life as enduring yet vulnerable to global, social, local and interpersonal constructions. Since I love bees, I had to post this image on the JAMM blog! Hopefully one day JAMM will exhibit works that may be seen now at The Jewish Museum's "Rite Now" and other amazing exhibit, "Reinventing Ritual."
Rite Now: Sacred and Secular in Video at The Jewish Museum, New York
"This image is from a video by artist Dafna Shalom, “Yamim Noraim (Fearful Days) #2″ (2007). Shalom documents the movement of bees in and around a honeycomb. Visually, it condenses our appreciation of honey, which is a staple of the Jewish New Year in a hope for sweetness, into something else: a metaphor for the fragility of community and the architecture of relationships. " The Jewish Museum blog: http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/blog/
“Yamim Noraim” is currently on view in The Jewish Museum’s exhibition Rite Now: Sacred and Secular in Video, organized by Andy Ingall.
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