Studio Shamah

Ohelibah: Exhibition Catalogue

To acquire any of the following works from the Ohelibah series, please speak directly with the artist, Moshe Shamah, or contact us via email here, to arrange payment and shipment!  

Catalogue of Available Works, Solo Exhibition Ohelibah, Soma Studio, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel, August 29th 2024 (Purchases of Collage Pieces Include a Signed Copy of the Book)

 

Ohelibah

A4 Mixed-Media Collage on Watercolor Paper, Manual Collage, Ink, Japanese Gold leaf paint

Our word for “forward” shares a root with our word for “before,” “ancient” – kedem. Return, to us, is not a perennial yearning – it is a creative act. – Yonah ben Avraham, The Poet

The Birth of a Lion, Ohelibah

A4 Mixed-Media Collage on Black Van Gogh Paper , Manual Collage, Japanese Gold leaf paint

I saw the smoke of a thousand

cigarettes, like a city burning

and the roar of ten dozen sons like

the clash of seven armies

Asherah, Ohelibah

A4 Mixed-Media Collage on Watercolor Paper, Manual Collage, Japanese Watercolor, Ink

It finds no satisfaction in the stones of my land

the rocks of my fathers will bear it no fruit

they sing against the alien taste of its bark

and the cut of its jagged twigs…

Glimpses, Ohelibah

A4 Mixed-Media Collage on Watercolor Paper, Manual Collage, Japanese Watercolor

To an old friend, eyes smiling behind

a mask, stopping to share a few words and well-wishes

Vows , Ohelibah (SOLD )

A4, Mixed-Media Collage on Watercolor Paper, Manual Collage, Ink, Japanese Gold Leaf Paint

When the ground itself 

seems to sink

pulling steadily, greedily…

Seven Years in Hebron, Ohelibah

A4 Mixed-Media Collage on Handmade Paper, Manual Collage, Japanese Watercolor

And I want this earth to be enough.

Quiet on the Mountain , Ohelibah

A4 Mixed-Media Collage on Watercolor Paper, Manual Collage, Japanese Watercolor

If you sleep, let

her wake you

with the whisper of sunrise

and the glow of tomorrow…

Whispers from the Valley, Ohelibah

A4 Mixed-Media Collage on Watercolor Paper, Manual Collage, Ink, Japanese Gold Leaf Paint

The wind itself here speaks,

silent…

To Jerusalem, Ohelibah

A4 Mixed-Media Collage on Black Van Gogh Paper, Manual Collage, Japanese Gold Leaf Paint

…And yet you assure me –

no poem is ever finished

Selah

Midnight Lament: Triptych , Ohelibah A4, (Left & Right), A3 (Center) Mixed-Media Collage on Black Van Gogh Paper , Manual Collage, Ink, Japanese Gold Leaf Paint …your silence is the stillness of the grave Our silence is the repose of the pit  You promised To never stop singing…

Memory (Interlude), Ohelibah

15 x 20.5 cm, Mixed-Media Collage on Watercolor Paper, Manual Collage, Microliner Pen

Because through all the hardships, the blood and tears, the shattered glass, the fragments of memory and weighty ululation of history – the teachings of our sages still ring true… – P. Moshe Shamah, The Artist

Man in the Moon , Ohelibah

10 x 15 cm, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper

Jericho , Ohelibah (SOLD)

10 x 15 cm, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper

Process/אטרף, Ohelibah

10 x 15 cm, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper

דומה, Ohelibah

10 x 15 cm, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper

When the market stood still, Ohelibah

10 x 15 cm, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper

Highway Six, Ohelibah

10 x 15 cm, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper

Schism, Ohelibah

10 x 15 cm, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper

Words to be forgotten, Ohelibah

10 x 15 cm, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper

Wishes, Ohelibah

10 x 15 cm, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper

Arugot, Ohelibah

10 x 15 cm, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper

For Nobody in Particular , Ohelibah

10 x 15 cm, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper

Etz Hadar, Ohelibah

10 x 15 cm, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper

Memory, Ohelibah

10 x 15 cm, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper

Ayekah, Ohelibah

10 x 15 cm, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper

Words to My Loved Ones in the Nuclear Fallout, Ohelibah

10 x 15 cm, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper

7th, Ohelibah (SOLD)

10 x 15 cm, Bombay Ink on Watercolor Paper