When a name becomes a place 1987 Amsterdam (When a name becomes a place), 1985

When a name becomes a place, 1987
Brass, bronze 30 x 520 Cm.



The MeNORaH,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menorah_(Temple) (the seven branched candleholder) has been left with its pouring cup, and the system of sprues, as they were at the moment of casting.

Drawing of the (original) MeNORaH, made by RaMBaM / Maimonides (1138-1204), in the Oxford manuscript of 'Commentary to the Mishnah' (Menachot ch. 3)

Please note:

the MeNORaH depicted on the Arch of Titus, Rome, should be explained as the image of the wax sprues which were attached to the positive replica of the original MeNORaH. 

Therefore, the seven branched candleholder depicted on the Arch, is as a matter of fact, a representation of the wax rods, the treelike wax spures which were added to the positive replica of the MeNORaH before the casting.

It is crucial to remember, that the sprues are removed after the casting, and the object is polished.

Lost-wax casting  http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Lost-wax_casting  http://www.linda-shaw.com/h_casting/casting_2/casting_2.htm

The Arch of Titus, Via Sacra, Rome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_of_Titus

This is what the doubling of MaKOM designating, 
the sum-total of Measurement in MOED.
And in so far as the doubling of MaKOM is a projection of itself, 
the promise which has been made in GaLUT is the rule, much rather than the exception. This is most obvious, GaLUT is a written text, a readable but a concealed architectural plan, a repetitive gesture for which purpose is to over come the absence of MaKOM.

Please note: the word  מועד MOED in Hebrew means - Appointed time, Specific time, Specific date ; Commemorative date. 

Amsterdam
(When a name becomes a place), 1985
Bronze, brass, walking stick (...for blind person),
20 x 70 x 105 Cm.

The absence of MaKOM

One cannot deny it, the absence of MaKOM is always already rising up against its own ShaMaYiM, (SKY) and like a dream it will continue to veil it.

But in this time, 
it is at once a real engagement, 
a committed dwelling with Angels. 
In a curious way, therefore, we can argue that when EReTz allows its Promise to exist in repetition, it allows at the same time, the process of violence to become a repetitive ritual.
But we also know that violence leads to a territory of abjection, and deliberate rejection. 
And yet, one should remember............ EReTz is also a place where each and every individual human's knee gets its meaning by references to the absence of MaKOM..........................This is undoubtedly a prolonged procession of an infinite symbolic funeral; namely, an endless procession with the same funeral elements.
This is what the doubling of EReTz designated,
the sum-total of Measurement in MOED (appointed time). 
Here then, as we cross the border which separates EReTz from GaLUT; as we journey from the sacred into the profane, the action of Measurement is becoming a symbolic breathing in reverse. 
We have already called it, "Reading while Writing"; A desire to be a resident of GaLUT and at the same time to dwell with angels.
At this moment, "Reading while Writing" is neither ahead of EReTz nor behind GaLUT, by now it is an uncontrolled, unstable vibration which comes together with the residents of EReTz obsession to retell about the inconclusive hope to fulfill the promise of GaLUT. 
This then is the experience and the results of dwelling in EReTz, a state of mind which forms the unique illusion of being in a prolonged state of BEN HaShMaShOT (AUGENBLICK).