sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2016-08-26 08:36 pm

Swimmer, swimmer in the sea, bring my body back to me

Three separate people have now sent me links to this photoset, but since it documents the transformation of a black dress, a replica of the costume worn by Hanna Rovina when she played Leye in An-sky's The Dybbuk (1920), suspended for three months in the thick salt waters of the Dead Sea until it emerged stiff and glittering, salt-crusted wedding-white as a spirit gathering flesh to itself, grief transformed into union, I don't think any of them were wrong: Sigalit Landau, "Salt Bride."

Bride

[identity profile] nineweaving.livejournal.com 2016-08-27 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
O my!

That is yours.

Nine
Edited 2016-08-27 03:42 (UTC)