“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.” (Gen. 7:11)
Noah is like a single ray of light emanating from heavy darkness. Broken by his increasingly destroyed world, he cries out for compassion through his movements. To the sounds of Arvo Pärt’s “Für Alina”, Noah prays for the balance that will turn the great abyss into a clear/healthy essence. “Thou hast come unto the depths of the earth, and amid the earth thou hast walked” (Job 38:16): The earth still stands above the unknown abyss, desperate for the groundwater to henceforth exist for it alone, for this is what it was intended for.
