Sundial
04:46 min. HD video, 2013
Between 2012-2013 I worked in an abandoned silo at Armon HaNatziv neighborhood in Hebrew, Jabel Mukaber in Arabic, Jerusalem. The area outside the silo, where it stood for more than 80 years, underwent many cultural and historical metamorphoses: from a Muslim holy site, to a Christian colony of the British high commissioner, an agricultural school for Jewish girls, an emergency shelter during battles, and Jerusalem’s No Man's Land, until it was occupied by the Israeli government in 1967. The silo held a mechanism rigged to follow and photograph the movement of light that comes through the cracks in the silo, at the rate of one frame per minute for 5 hours. The cosmic colors that characterize the photographs are the outcome of the optical phenomenon of camera obscura, which flips the image and disorients the viewer.