He [Jacob] had a vision in a dream. A ladder was
standing on the ground and its top reached up toward heaven; and behold! Divine
angels were ascending and descending on it. (Genesis 28:12)
We enjoyed sitting together in the Metropolitan Museum of Art print room holding Rembrandt's drawings and etchings of angels in our hands.
Divine angels ascend and descend. (Genesis
28:12) "They start by going up and afterwards go down" (Rashi)
"Have you seen angels ascending from the NYC subways? (Alexenberg)
Art is a computer angel.
The biblical term for art (MeLekHeT MakHSheVeT) is feminine. The masculine form is computer angel
(MaLakH MakHSheV).
The biblical words for angel and food are written with
the same four letters to tell us that angels are spiritual messages arising
from everyday life.
We chose an image of an ascending angel to digitize and send
on a circumglobal flight on 4 October 1989, Rembrandt's 320th memorial
day.
We sent it via satellite from the AT&T building in NY to
Amsterdam to Jerusalem to Tokyo to Los Angeles, returning to NY the same
afternoon.
The cyberangel not only circled our planet, it flew into
tomorrow and back into yesterday, arriving in Tokyo on 5 Oct. and LA on 4 Oct.
In Tokyo, the 28 faxed sheets were assembled in Ueno Park
and then rearranged as a ribbon ascending the steps of a Shinto chapel.
As we assembled the cyberangel on its return to NY five
hours after it had left, TV news sent it into ten million American homes.
The AP story of our angel flight appeared in 60 newspapers
each with a different headline. AT&T
featured it in its Annual Report.
For the full story and more images, see artworks at
http://www.melalexenberg.com. 