"SHIR HASHIRIM -  THE SONG OF SONGS " 

The scroll "Song of Songs" is one of the 5 scrolls in the Bible, attributed to King Solomon, and consider  the holiest of the books in the old testament.

"When Yair Medina approached me 2 years ago and asked me if I would be interested in creating a series of woodcuts for the “Song of Songs”, my immediate response was “for that, I need to feel in love“,  since these poetic love songs touch my wish to transcend all barriers and  become One with the universe , one with Love itself.

it has taken  me 2 years to bring these images into the light, they rise from the roots of the soul that knows love, loss and beyond.

They “sing” our human longing to unite with the Divine, as we feel it when we fall in love with a person, when we become one with  the beauty and mystery in nature, or when we simply feel the creator in us.

While working on the Art I imagined it in the seed of the plant that dreams the flower, in the essence of the cocoon that transforms into the butterfly, in the sacrifice of the tree that creates the fire, in the breath of the woman, the kiss of the bird, the eyes of the beloved, the touch of the wind, in the union of heart with mind.

The ultimate song is always a love song to the miracle of life and death and transcendence."

LILIANA Kleiner

"Liliana visited my studio on the winter of 2006, I fell in love with the Images that I saw as well as with the person I felt next to me.  I thought that this primal and direct kind of expression can perfectly convey what I experience while reading the songs of songs. The kind of power, one can only experience while searching for his own truth, for his own sacred place.
We decided to “take the ride together”...

When we got to the part of choosing the calligraphy, we tried some typefaces but nothing seemed to work until I remembered picking up a booklet at my grandfathers home, a few days after he died. It had his writing practice  for being a sofer stam, back in Morocco - It was exactly what we were looking for. His name was Shlomo.

It is with great love that I dedicate this work to my grandparents Shlomo and Mazal Ohayon z”l. "

Yair Medina

Jerusalem Fine Art Prints
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