{"id":1759,"date":"2012-05-31T12:45:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T09:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2012-06-08T07:32:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T04:32:11","slug":"taming-the-ox-and-avraham-ofek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/taming-the-ox-and-avraham-ofek\/","title":{"rendered":"Taming the Ox and Avraham Ofek"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The year of the ox, 2010, was celebrated by a a weekend seminar with my calligraphy group near\u00a0Caesarea beach.<\/span><\/h3>\n

We learned the ancient Chinese story Taming the Ox.<\/a><\/h3>\n
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As\u00a0we practiced\u00a0the ancient\u00a0sign, I surprisingly recalled the ox as part of the\u00a0first\u00a0Hebrew letter – Alef<\/span> – <\/span>\u05d0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

It is derived from the word Alef<\/span>, meaning the first, the first bull\u00a0of the herd.<\/span><\/h3>\n

The 22 ancient Hebrew letters derive from the\u00a0Phoenician letters.<\/h3>\n

So far apart and such similarity.<\/h3>\n

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So I altered a 44 year paper scroll from my father’s chemistry laboratory into an Ox Scroll.<\/h3>\n

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Scroll and fragment<\/p>\n

I was\u00a0contemplating\u00a0\u00a0about Avraham<\/span> Ofek<\/span><\/a>‘s Hieroglyphs.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Dr. Gideon<\/span> Ofrat<\/span>,<\/span><\/a>collected\u00a0and assembled a visual list\u00a0of his the artists’ Hieroglyphs into a beautiful book, the first attempt to see his work as a whole.\u00a0[only in Hebrew]<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u05d1\u05d9\u05ea, \u05d0\u05d1\u05e8\u05d4\u05dd \u05d0\u05d5\u05e4\u05e7, \u05e2\u05d1\u05d5\u05d3\u05d5\u05ea 1953-1986 , \u05d2\u05d3\u05e2\u05d5\u05df \u05e2\u05e4\u05e8\u05ea<\/span><\/h3>\n

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This double spread from the book, is hung on my studio wall for as long as I can remember. The tiny drawings, enigmatic, archetypal<\/span> and yet obvious is an endless treasure for me. An ox and a cow are portrayed here too.<\/span><\/h3>\n

At the last hour of that weekend,\u00a0I drew on the shore, the Chinnese<\/span>– Japanese sign and the Mediterranean<\/span> sea swallowed it all soon after words.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Upper picture: Ox Sign Icon on wood, 2012<\/p>\n

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The year of the ox, 2010, was celebrated by a a weekend seminar with my calligraphy group near\u00a0Caesarea beach. We learned the ancient Chinese story Taming the Ox. As\u00a0we practiced\u00a0the ancient\u00a0sign, I surprisingly recalled the ox as part of the\u00a0first\u00a0Hebrew letter – Alef – \u05d0 It is derived from the word Alef, meaning the first, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,233,1,204],"tags":[318,344,345,319,18,346,335,721,175,28,217,177,331,347,348,153,23,372,370,371,373,374],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}