A BioDesign project questioning and giving an alternative for the evolution of the Hebrew alphabet.
For my final thesis at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, I developed a method of researching visual aspects of language while growing letters in petri dishes.To do so I developed an ink based on biological matter. The ink was created using Paenibacillus vortex bacteria, which explores the interactions between nature and culture. This ongoing project also explores the developing states of the Hebrew language and the Hebrew character. Using my research, experiments and results, I am hoping to question nature,culture, character and language with some new theories of my own.
The Palaeo-Hebrew alphabet, is a variant of the Phoenician alphabet. This alphabet began to fall out of use by the Jews in the5th century when the Aramaic alphabet was adopted as the predominant writing system for Hebrew, from which the present"square-script" Hebrew alphabet evolved.Here I presented an evolution for theHebrew script made by the Paenibacillus vortex bacteria. I placed the bacteria in the shape of the Palaeo-Hebrew alphabet and then layered it's food in the shaped of the modern Hebrew alphabet letter.
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