כור היתוך (Kur Hituch) Artist's Book by Carmel Dor
“Here borders are reflected, extend into each other, and are locked in an unending spiral - refracting cyclically as though hands mirrored on a clock face. Each page is an opportunity to reconsider how this volatile fusion unfolds.
The watercolor pencils reference color mixtures from the Israeli flag (Light Blue), the Palestinian flag (Venetian Red), and the flags together (Burnt Carmine). These become tools for exploring shifting boundaries and unsettling ideas of fixed nations.
This zine is for practicing presence in the unknown.
This project is made possible by a Tyler School of Art and Architecture Grant-in-Aid award for Research and Creative Work from Temple University.
Printed at Pet Riso Studio for Form and Formless: Constellations of Knowledge at the UrbanGlass Robert Lehman Gallery.” - Carmel Dor
The title translates to “melting pot/nuclear fusion reactor.”
5.5” x 6” x 0.5” (including spiral binding)
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
“Here borders are reflected, extend into each other, and are locked in an unending spiral - refracting cyclically as though hands mirrored on a clock face. Each page is an opportunity to reconsider how this volatile fusion unfolds.
The watercolor pencils reference color mixtures from the Israeli flag (Light Blue), the Palestinian flag (Venetian Red), and the flags together (Burnt Carmine). These become tools for exploring shifting boundaries and unsettling ideas of fixed nations.
This zine is for practicing presence in the unknown.
This project is made possible by a Tyler School of Art and Architecture Grant-in-Aid award for Research and Creative Work from Temple University.
Printed at Pet Riso Studio for Form and Formless: Constellations of Knowledge at the UrbanGlass Robert Lehman Gallery.” - Carmel Dor
The title translates to “melting pot/nuclear fusion reactor.”
5.5” x 6” x 0.5” (including spiral binding)
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
“Here borders are reflected, extend into each other, and are locked in an unending spiral - refracting cyclically as though hands mirrored on a clock face. Each page is an opportunity to reconsider how this volatile fusion unfolds.
The watercolor pencils reference color mixtures from the Israeli flag (Light Blue), the Palestinian flag (Venetian Red), and the flags together (Burnt Carmine). These become tools for exploring shifting boundaries and unsettling ideas of fixed nations.
This zine is for practicing presence in the unknown.
This project is made possible by a Tyler School of Art and Architecture Grant-in-Aid award for Research and Creative Work from Temple University.
Printed at Pet Riso Studio for Form and Formless: Constellations of Knowledge at the UrbanGlass Robert Lehman Gallery.” - Carmel Dor
The title translates to “melting pot/nuclear fusion reactor.”
5.5” x 6” x 0.5” (including spiral binding)
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
Carmel Dor (they/them) is a Minneapolis-based artist and educator. Their research-based practice uses painting, drawing, zine-making, and sculpture to investigate felt time in moments of transition. Dor's recent work is particularly interested in how queer theories of mutable identity formation map onto Jewish Diaspora and Israeli Nationality as sites of historical and necessarily forthcoming transition. Their work is featured on the White Columns Registry and they were a 2023 Ortega y Gasset Projects Artist to Watch. They received grants from the Tyler School of Art to complete their artist books Economy of the Droplet (2022) and Kur Hituch (2023) and completed the Duckworth Scholar’s Studio Makerspace Residency in 2024. Dor has degrees in Art and Art History from the University of California, Davis and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University.
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