Ref. no 4656

Monika Krajewska

And the earth was chaos, 2023

papercut, collage, ink, watercolor

50 x 50 cm

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Description

From the "Creation of the world" series.


The text in the circle is the first verses of the Torah: "Now the earth was astonishingly empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the water..." (Genesis 1:1-2), inside the composition - "astonishingly empty and chaos" (in another translation - "the earth being unformed and void") and "the breath of God", and on the outside the letters of the Hebrew alphabet; tradition adds that they existed even before the creation of the world and served the Supreme in the work of creation.

About the artist

Monika Krajewska

Artist, journalist, editor and Jewish school teacher, she has been involved in Jewish art for 40 years.
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