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| Jacob’s
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The 'ladder of heaven' of John Klimakos, 12th Century, Alchemy and Mysticism, Alexander Roob, Taschen Books 1997 Heavenly ladder of St. John of Sinai, John Klimakos, 12th Century, Tempera on Wood, Monastery of St. Catherine - Mount Sinai |
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| Tanya
Ury's article written in English entitled Transcending
the Ladder about the development and
research for her project Jacob's Ladder
appears in 'From Work to Word' edited and published by Doris Frohnapfel,
Professor of Photography at the Bergen Art Academy, Korridor Verlag, ISBN
3-9804354-8-2 (D) 2002
"Over the following pages, I would like to illustrate my own working practice as an artist, which includes story telling. In particular, I will demonstrate my fascination with the legend of Jacob that was originally engendered by many and complex recurring childhood dreams. In those dreams, menacingly deep escalators tumbled and slid the traveller into an underworld, from turned-up-level steps. There were also shaky elevator constructions made of bare planks on building sites of Babel proportions; and then there were the piles of chairs that reached precariously up into starlit heavens, which one dared to clamber, only as a last resort when pursued by demons. A process of collecting together ideas and raw material in more recent years, eventually lead to several art works, directly or indirectly inspired by the stories of Jacob's vision of a ladder to heaven, and his struggle with the angel." Tanya Ury |
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