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The Well (2008)
Project type
New Media Installation
Date
2008
siza
Site specific. varible size
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Commissioned by the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Courtesy of the artist and Mike Weiss Gallery. Commissioned by the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco for In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis, (June 8, 2008 – January 6, 2009).
Photo credit: Bruce Damonte.
The Well is a digital installation that invites viewers to gaze into a swirling vortex of words. Emerging from the darkness, these fragments of language -“salt,” “China,” and countless others -trigger memories, histories, and associations that stretch across time and geography.
The work meditates on the question of beginnings: Where do stories, cultures, and worlds originate? And to what extent are we bound by language - this fragile, imperfect mechanism -as our only tool for imagining creation?
In The Well, words never settle. They appear, dissolve, and reappear, drawing the viewer into a loop of meaning without conclusion. Like a bottomless well, the piece suggests that origins are always elusive, and that our attempts to grasp them are both infinite and incomplete.
