Artists have a unique ability to put communal feelings into their art. No less so the Israeli artists of the 60's and 70's whose sculptures may be seen as, not only symbolic images of their own feelings of instability, but also of the instability of Israel, with its precarious borders, constantly under attack from their surrounding hostile neighbours. Their sculptures look very unstable, as if they will topple over at any second, but of course they are still standing strong, healthy and stable and we can expect them to retain this instability for many many decades.

Or they may represent their own inherent unstable image of the Divine, As Solomon says, in his song of songs, "I came to answer my beloved and he was gone,

"Some one came knocking
at my wee small door
some one came knocking
'm sure, sure, sure

I listened, I opened
Ilooked to left and right
But naught there was a stirring in the
still dark night.

Paradoxically the artist seems to be saying,

there is no balance in the world. There is no justice.

But he makes a sculpture that is defiantly stable