Proun:
“Proun leads the artist from contemplation to reality. Whereas a completed painting has only its own perfection, each Proun represents only one link in the chain, a short stop on the way to perfection. Proun transforms modes of artistic production. Leaves behind the individualist artist who works locked in his own cabinet. Proun, however, introduces into the creative process, a plurality of producers (…)The author’s personality disappears in the artwork , and we see the birth of a new style, not individual artists, but anonymous perpetrators, which together will construct the building of time”
– El Lissitzky
In Jewish Mystical Teaching, the 22 letters of the Hebrew Alphabet are the energetic building blocks of creation. Like the periodic table of elements, God formed all things in the universe through combinations of Hebrew letters (just as atoms of oxygen and hydrogen combine to form a molecule of water). Hebrew letters each have a meaning and a numerical value. Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. It symbolizes that "God is One" and that He is the Master. It is a silent letter and is not spoken just as the name of the Lord cannot be spoken. Aleph stands for Adam (the first man), for Abraham (who recognized there is only One God) and for Abba (hebrew for "father"). The poet Jorge Luis Borges wrote that Aleph is a point in space that contains all other points. Anyone who gazes into Aleph can see everything in the universe from every angle simultaneously. (4" x 6", black ink print)