Summer
Show
2022
Show
2022
24
November
18:00 SAST
November
18:00 SAST
Museum of the Divine Instruction
An Atlas for Contemporary Jewish living
Amber Solomon
BArch Hons 2022
Supervisors:
Unit Leader: Craig McClenaghan
Unit Tutor: Ruby Mungoshi
Unit Assistant: Azraa Gabru
UNIT 21
Phantom Cartographies
The project aims to understand and expand on the notion of untranslatable words, by analysing boundaries and thresholds within language, specifically the Hebrew language as well as the Jewish religion and traditions that come with it.
The Museum of the Divine Instruction will be looking at biblical architecture such as the Tabernacle (mishkan), and will attempt to decipher the scripture in order to recreate the tabernacle. It will look at the Hebrew language, and its sacred geometry used to translate what the biblical architect, Bezalel, was instructed to design.
Scripture writes, “I have called Bezalel ... and I have instilled within him the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge of the language and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, and silver, and bronze, and in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. This project aims to try and understand the divine instruction and the ability to decipher language.
The Museum of the Divine Instruction will be looking at biblical architecture such as the Tabernacle (mishkan), and will attempt to decipher the scripture in order to recreate the tabernacle. It will look at the Hebrew language, and its sacred geometry used to translate what the biblical architect, Bezalel, was instructed to design.
Scripture writes, “I have called Bezalel ... and I have instilled within him the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge of the language and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, and silver, and bronze, and in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. This project aims to try and understand the divine instruction and the ability to decipher language.
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