Avoda
Words, after speech, reach
Into the silence.
T. S. Eliot
The Four Quartets
Nothing blossoms in sand or between plates of a roadway, unless words…
Jacques Derrida “Writing and difference”
טו וַיִּקַּח יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-הָאָדָם; וַיַּנִּחֵהוּ בְגַן-עֵדֶן, לְעָבְדָהּ וּלְשָׁמְרָהּ.
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Project name: Avoda
Location: Jerusalem, the abandoned railway station
Date and time: Saturday night, 13 July 2007, 16:00-18:30
Materials: old oak railway sleepers, a pick and a mattock, Jerusalem
Description: For two and a half hours (real time), I was planting a “garden” from old oak railway sleepers, using only a pick and a mattock. I planted a total of 7 sleepers.
