Ella Littwitz's recent sculpture The Sword in the Stone was acquired by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and will appear in the exhibition Material Imagination.
From Dr. Noam's Gal text:
"After leaving your studio, I thought that your marvelous maritime squill is such a mark: a symbol in Israeli culture for the end of summer and the beginning of a new Hebrew year, it has a beautiful white inflorescence that is like a vertical clock - the tiny flowers on the tall stalk bloom and wither one after the other with the passing of time, but only for a couple of weeks. During the rest of the year the tuber is hidden underground, full of juices that are used since antiquity as either poison or medication, twin causes, but one could hardly ever uproot it entirely, you can cut it and cover it and it would always grow back and flag high up in the air at some point. For that reason, it was commonly used as a land marker around the Mediterranean, animals cannot eat it, humans cannot ignore it, the kind of substance that makes territory sustains visible permanence. You dared to pull one out, although it's forbidden, with the bulb and the roots and the tall faint stalk and everything, the land is unowned again, no territory marked, and the plant that sacrificed its life for this subversive action is now cast in bronze. A monument for our ready forgetfulness that nothing is natural and given, save for an artist's suspicion.
And what kind of hole did it leave behind? What about the hole, Ella?"
