The Adam/Makom action is one of the key actions I have been performing in The Negev Desert for the past few years.
For six years, I have been arriving at the physical site in the Negev desert, during Winter, Summer, and Fall. The site is the physical landmark of the Liquid Desert Project that serves as the metaphorical entrance into the collective subconscious sphere, represented by its architectural spaces.
Every few weeks I arrive at the field for several days. During that time, the area is documented through the early morning, evening, and late-night hours. The working tools are a camera and sound equipment. the documentation lasts for a substantial time, in which the field’s data is being collected and captured, providing sound recordings and photographs, and allowing me a physical connection to the area’s ground.
In addition, the trail camera is positioned in the field, for an undetermined period of time; for me, it serves as a data storeroom collecting the daily documentation of whatever occurs around the abovementioned structure. The trail camera is now transmitting a continuous stream of live data from the site to its parallel in my studio for 24 hours.
Residing at the physical site to record and photograph, for several days each time, is the core activity carried out at the site on the edge of this deserted area.
In the last few years, several physical sculptures were buried under the visible surface around the shed/tent/structure (represented as Bikta/Makom). The Iron and clay sculptures serve as a unit of physical and fundamental connection for me to a rich, complex, and hidden metaphysic sphere that exists under the visible surface. That sphere stores these physical objects charged with tension, contradiction, and conflict in their bodies.
The attached photographs were taken at the field itself, including recordings from different times of the year (summer, spring, fall, and winter) and some documentation of the sculptures’ burial.
Adam/Makom is the alignment of the relationships I am exploring as an artist with the place itself - Ma’ale Abraham. Maale Abraham is the physical landmark of the underground Liquid Desert Project, which has an autobiographical significance for me. Additionally, it functions as an important interface between the physical and metaphysical dimensions.