This project is part of a large body of work, materialized in ice. In ‘Freezing Time’(2022) I emerge from a water hole in a frozen lake, dragging a chain of femur and tibia bones (our skeletal infrastructure for walking) anchored to its center. Walking in circles, the bones on my shoulders, I mark the Roman symbols of time with my bare feet. The video performance ends when I complete the marking of clock time and cold plunge into the freezing lake. This video was made in a direct relation to Wish Bones (2005-2009), in whichI carry a chain of dry cow bones throughout various historical sites in Israel, from the Sataf ruins of a depopulated Palestinian village which sat atop of a 4,000 BCE Chalcolithic agricultural village, through the Jerusalem Forests and Tel Aviv beach at dawn; the odyssey concluded in Akhziv, the ruins of a Palestinian village which sat atop layers of excavated remains dating back to the Canaanite culture. At this site, I stacked the bones into a cairn and let them drown in the sea. When revisiting the bones now, I decided to work with models of human tibia and femur bones to symbolize migration and walking. Instead of a linear progression, Freezing Time explores cyclical movement as an ongoing journey with no prospect of arriving.
