"Ehie Asher Ehie" (horizontal version)
Year: 2006
Size: 80 x 60 cm
(32" x 16")
Technique: collage
and mixed media on
canvas (polyester
and varnish).
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About EHIE ASHER EHIE – by Silvia Licht
This sentence appears in the book of Exodus:
"3-13: And Moses said to God, When I come
to the children of Israel and say to them, The
God of your fathers has sent me to you: and
they say to me, What is his name? what am I
to say to them?
3-14: And God said to him, I AM WHAT I AM*
(Ehie Asher Ehie): and he said, Say to the
children of Israel, I AM has sent me to you."
*the proper translation should be: I'LL BE
THAT I SHALL BE
Therefore, Ehie Asher Ehie is the first name
God gives to himself, when Moses asks God
how he should describe Him to the people of
Israel.
My understandig of this Name of God is that
of an ever-changing entity, a being that alows
itself to be whatever he wants to be, or
whatever he might be, without any
preconceptions, judgments or limits.
This is a very existentialist view of the God,
as totally opposite to "law based" religion,
since laws limit freedom.
Also, the work is made of a field of identical
Alefs, these meaning the endless individuals
in society, who act alike, look alike and think
alike. Then, in the middle emerge the
different letters, forming the phrase Ehie
Asher Ehie, thus showing diversity and
change inside the monotonous background,
thus symbolizing the different and unique, the
creative and original.