Digital Shabbat
Traveling kit designed for the exhibition To Go: New Designs for Jewish Ritual Objects.
The Shabbat feast requires certain equipment for its observance, even when one is traveling. These objects present an opportunity to consider both the historical and cultural elements at play in contemporary Shabbat objects.
Numbers are believed to have strong meanings in Judaism and Digital Shabbat has numbers at its heart. Significant and auspicious numbers are used to determine proportion, size, and pattern.
The glass used in this work is the same material used in high-tech laboratory equipment. The cloth is printed digitally, and the box is manufactured using the latest additive manufacturing techniques.
These materials and concepts come together in an object with no obvious opening. Reminiscent of an ancient and mysterious book of knowledge, the box features lines corresponding to important numbers in Judaism: as a whole, it is a digital object of our time.
Studio edition for The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.