Matter of time, 2023

Football and Geode

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Ella Littwitz roams the country collecting findings, as part of an artistic practice that combines geography, geology and botany. Her work in the exhibition consists of two artifacts-cum-sculptures in which the active ingredient is time. One is a fossilized football, which preserves human time; the second is a Geode, also known in Hebrew as an "Elijah Ball" (or sometimes "Elijah Watermelon"), a hollow stone that is formed inside a rock as a result of the decomposition of organic matter, preserving the "deep time" of geology . The origin of the stone's name comes from the Greek word "geodis" which means "like the earth" because of its spherical shape and its texture resembling the earth’s crust.

Text by Tamar Margalit, Substrate, CCA Tel Aviv