The sculpture was created during an artist residency in the community of Tzukim in the Arava Desert. The materials were brought to me by local farmers who are gradually abandoning greenhouse cultivation due to increasing competition and the loss of economic viability.
Among the agricultural waste were also spools of black ropes, originally used for trellising peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, and eggplants. By tracing the act of trellising, I chose the gesture of tying—a memory of supporting the plant’s weight and shaping its growth vertically for the optimal use of cultivation space.
Over time and with the desert wind, the plastic sheets begin to disintegrate into fragments, turning yellow and dusty under the intense Arava sun.
The work expresses transformation, movement through time, and the wind moving inside the hidden inner space of the plastic structure. Like the decay of fruit that begins from within and moves outward, the black threads mark a hollow and deceptive boundary.