Jakob’s Ladder ( סֻלָּם יַעֲקֹב ), 2026, installation, cedar wood, ribbon, cotton, seawater, ink. The resulting pigments painted in seawter and ink perfectly match the colors of the sunset over the Mediterranean sea in the region of Napoli, Italy. The installation of the work is intended to be installed alongside Telescope Campi Flegrei ( φλέγω), 2026, a work on the eventual reformation of the lives and landscape resulting from the eruption of a super volcano. The work exposes ideological allegory in a secular perspective of geological emapathy or understanding the magnetic and resonance landscape upon which we live with life on earth. The work developed from Bridge of Jakob, 2010 and Dreamtime Landscape, 2024.
Contact the artist for exhibitions and collection: mariammanart@icloud.com
View the video of the making of the first two on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZM9EaiIz2z/
The following images are from the work in progress:
