Uriel Miron, a sculptor and painter, created Stone, Sea and Scissors (2004), a work entirely constructed with the image of a hunted whale that has been warped, folded, cut to pieces and copied. Miron deals in the image of the whale and the violence of whale hunting, but also in this subject’s inherent paradox: It is their thick layer of blubber, the very reason they are able to survive in the ocean, which brings humans to annihilate them. Galia Bar Or writes about Miron’s use of the whale image in his works- “In the 18th and 19th centuries harpooned whales were lashed to the side of the ship, a hook plunged into their skin and the blubber peeled off their flesh in strips… Miron used this image of the whale’s peeling as a point of departure for a series of over 200 whale-drawings that undergo a gamut of sequential mutations… yielding an inexorable cycle of extinction and growth” . Miron deals in human violence by means of the violence of form and matter- he folds paper, cuts it, and presents the tension between filled and empty spaces and between lines that provide contour and the space outside these lines (a space that is ever-expanding in the animation). All these twist in and around themselves, over and over, without letting up. The minimalist drawings try again and again to break free of existing forms to create something new.
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