Tsimtsum
2014
Object, variable dimensions.
Materials: handsewn leather case, maple stick, felt, cotton paper
Collection: Courtesy of the artist.
Another ‘travel piece’ where all the constituent parts (the hand-made leather case, its wooden handle, the felt and paper wrappings) are put on display, except the objects that have left their imprints on them when the author sat on the stuffed case as he journeyed to the exhibition. The title refers to the kabbalistic notion of reduction or presence-in-absence. (AK)