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Glory Hole, 2009
Rubber and loctite on wood panel
40 x 40 in / 100 x 100 cm

Glory Hole includes the word in four languages: Kadosh - Hebrew, Holy - English, Maqadas - Arabic and Hailik - Yiddish. The dense construction rises about an inch off the panel. Holy is a heavy word it hold extreme connectedness and extreme conflict simultaneously. Much of these multilingual works contemplates these two properties and their manifestation in the geopolitical realm or the internal landscape.

In addition to the sexual ritual associated with the phrase Glory Hole, the term also refers to the second furnace in glassblowing, used to reheat the molten glass. Glassblowing was developed by the Phoenicians.