‘From Water Tower to Lighthouse: When it Rains, It Pours’ project offers to brighten the dark nights and the murky period we go through, with the transformation of the water tower into a lighthouse that illuminates the environment. In these days of uncertainty and darkness, it seems necessary and needed to contribute to the environment in such optimistic manner. The past year was sunken into dark days, filled with fears and anxieties, while people search for sources of light and delight. The “rain” falling within the tower is made of glass balls and crystal prisms, transforming the central container of the water tower into a bright prism, breaking the sunbeams while flooding the inner art of the tower’s cylinder with bright light.
In recent years I have sought to work in alternative spaces and locations, for my site specific projects. My choice of the water tower in Tivon comes from my understanding of this space from three different points of view: First, the primary function of a water tank, containing the liquid of life, meets my desire to work with materials of translucency and liquidity, like that of water. Second, the shape, height and location of the water tower in relation to the environment defined the need to transform it into a lighthouse, to brighten the nights (and days) of the evil times we go through. Finally, the acoustic qualities of this tall and narrow tower made it clear that the place calls for sound intervention through the invitation of Ido Ben-Ami Zohar, a sound artist to join the project.
Ayelet Zohar
Tel Aviv, May 202
