The Mezuzot Project for the Jewish Museum     2004

I am exploring the methods to exhibit, hang, and display the text parchment of the Mezuzah.
The method of display affects its content. The method of display is its content.
I am exploring how much of the text to reveal.
I am exploring the ways in which an unrevealed text implies hidden meaning.
I am exploring the “frame”.
I am exploring the hinge as a concept. I am exploring the door as concept.
Is a door open or closed?
The threshold.
Transitions.
States of an unfolding box.
An erupting form.
The spiraling of the text parchment.
The horizontal and the vertical.
Passage.

Like the scientific method I hold things constant.
I introduce one variable.
The pure white - a petrie dish to study the concept of Mezuzah.
Acts as a standard, a reference, a datum.
Everything almost the same.

The collection is a portfolio.

Traveling through the museum the white are pages to be read, a non verbal narrative.