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Cell No. 1
Absalon
1992
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Absalon was the name adopted by Israeli artist Eshel Meir upon his arrival in Paris in the late 1980s. His “cellules,” life-sized architectural models made of wood and painted white, were designed as both sculptures and living-pods. Six of these were exhibited at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris shortly before Absalon’s untimely death at the age of twenty-nine. His work has been exhibited posthumously in Europe, the United States, and Turkey and is found in the Tate Modern, Daimler Modern, and other public collections.
In the middle of the summer Meir’s father gave in to his uncle and aunt’s pleas and went away with them to spend a week in the country, and in obedience to his request Meir went over to the apartment…
I am exceedingly green: chill green.
What have I to do
with all the greenishness of chance?
I am the green-source, the green-self,
one and incomparable.