A conflagration of themes is surely an apt description of this profound work. Blind lady justice, the scales of Justice holding Cups, Cups holding scrolls of past knowledge and the sapling of new growth. Broken and whole trees people the landscape…
The central cup is the pot for the sapling whose roots have broken through the porcelain cup and reach out to the ground for stability and nourishment. The suspended cup is filled with scrolls and maybe held aloft by the earth-filled cup. Where is the Justice?
Does this work even touch on questions of what is Just? And the title referring to the Scrolls of Living Water instead of the Etz Chayim He, a reference to the Torah, the Scrolls or the 5 Books of Moses as a Tree of Life. Bak refers us to the Waters as the source of Life.
Confusion or conflagration? Either way we are left with so many questions and few answers. Clearly the most effective way to learn and to live.
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