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    Aithan Shapira

  • Tree Pots and Life Saver, Aithan Shapira, 198 x 262 cm, Collograph
    Tree Pots and Life Saver, Aithan Shapira, 198 x 262 cm, Collograph
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  • ‘Man I love not. I love that which devours him.’
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight (1931)

    In our cynical Rube Goldberg*, we see things devouring other things, we devour ourselves, we devour each other. After the devouring, only the bones, the cores of things, remain; and their secrets can be revealed.

    My current work compares Jewish and Aboriginal sacred symbologies from land.

    * A convoluted mechanism built to carry out a mundane task.

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