In the series of etching titled Turangalila, the mechanical element is {even} more prominent. These are prints made after close-up photographs of music boxes {…}. The primary inspiration here {too} comes from music, this title from the work of by the contemporary French composer Olivier Messiaen – a symphony which is called “Turangalila”.
The meaning of this Sanskrit word “turanga”: time that passes and steams like a sand in hour – glass, and “lila”: play, game, in the sense of the divine action upon the universe, the game of the creation, the game of destruction and building anew; in other words, the game of life ad death.
Tami Katz-Freiman
Taken from “In Quest of the Lost Ark”
LIHIE TALMOR
WORKS ON PAPER
IRON SCULPTURES
1991-1993
The Artist’ House, Jerusalem, 1993