Paper and gel capsules
7/8" (2.2 cm)
high, 1/4" (0.6 cm) diam.
This project is a very literal interpretation
of a passage in the Old Testament:
In Ezekiel 3, God instructs Ezekiel to
eat a scroll of lamentations so he can
then speak His words to the people of
Israel. By encapsulating in digestible pills
the entire text of Leviticus, one of the
five books of the Torah, the designers
suggest a comparison between medicinal
and religious prescription, as well as
the idea of many people ingesting the
same knowledge and then interpreting
it differently, even questioning it. The
entire text was divided, so that only
a fragment went into each vegetable-based
capsule, which were placed
all together on a koshered table and
displayed in the exhibition Reinventing
Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design
for Jewish Life at The Jewish Museum,
New York, in 2009.
