THE WORD PEACE
On the wall which led down to the Picasso to Jasper Johns exhibition, one cannot help being stopped by this...... Clare Halter was born in Paris and is a journalist and director of a revue called "Elements" for peace negotiated in the Near East from 1967-1977. She discovered design in 1976. Manipulating letters and signs, tiny modules which were microscopic and repetitif, working with a magnifying glass she produced this. It became a picture without any real sense. (see below on left). In 2000 she "invested" in one word. Peace which she transposed into all those languages and all those alphabets. In a way I feel she was giving birth to a Peace Monument. She worked along side architects in Paris, Saint Petersbourg, Hiroshima and soon she will be working in Jerusalem.....it was fascinating just reading each line - and I did - and pronouncing each word as she had inscribed it phonetically.