Vortex

At Beit HaBe’er in Jaffa, I presented works created specifically for the site, including a wall installation made of water pipes. The work refers to the history of the well house and to the water-conveyance systems that irrigated Jaffa’s orchards during the nineteenth century. I chose to engage with this history through form and material: the well once supplied water to the orchards surrounding it, and sections of its original irrigation channels have been preserved in the gallery floor. In response to the site, I created an object whose base rests on a circular mirror one metre in diameter, evoking a “whirlpool.” Made of blue plastic water pipes commonly used today to transport water, the structure intertwines, emerges from the wall, and appears to float above the preserved original channel.