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
Fault-Line, Ohelibah
A4 Mixed-Media Collage on Watercolor Paper, Manual Collage, Ink, Japanese Gold leaf paint
…the flick of a rare cigarette
ash blended into work-stained hands
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
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