Vessels: Attun
collage
I tried to upload this last night, but I couldn’t get online. So, I’m trying out Flickr, because it’s accessible from work. It seems easy enough, but I’m not sure I like the size of the thumb-nails. I’m also not keen on the the way images are displayed. I really like the transparency of Hello. But, beggars can’t be choosers, right?
Anyway, this piece is yet another in the new Vessels series. After I had the basic lay-out sorted, I started playing around with some letters I’d cut out of an architecture magazine. My options were limited, word-wise, so I settled on attun. Hmmm. I was sure I’d come across the word before, but I couldn’t remember the context or meaning. A quick Google turned up this. Oh, serendipity!
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-hebrew/2000-January/005986.html
Dr. Marcus Jastrow defines ‘attun /’attun’a as “fire-place, stove; a fire-place of which the fire has been scraped out.” … However, it is also used in Targum Onqelos to translate the Hebrew word kavshen at Exodus 19:18, which is a “kiln for lime or pottery,” (BDBG) and was used to describe the smoking mountain of the theophany. Or as some translate this Hebrew word also, a “furnace.” It would appear that the word ‘attun is not explicit, except to refer to a large place used for burning. Yet ordinarily, that might favor furnace or kiln over a bread oven.
red paper boat 