Towers of Babel

Artist Statement

The tower is a shape that has fascinated me for years. It symbolizes human yearning to reach high and look far and down, but the biblical Tower of Babel contextualized that striving as arrogance leading to discordant consequences. The story of the building of the tower in the Hebrew Bible explains the transition from one to a multitude of human languages as a punishment for an attempt to reach heaven and be on the same level as the divine.