כשההר נכנס לגג | When The Mountain Entered The Roof

The book is a kind of visual diary, not necessarily chronological but rather offering a seismograph of moments where the psyche and the creative imagination express themselves through the eye and the hand; sometimes in reference to life itself, for the most part directly, immediately and wisely eschewing virtuosity. The works are printed full page, with no frame, leaking from sheet to sheet so the book resembles a sketchbook. In the double spreads the images sometimes inspire and pollinate each other.

The works in the book can be divided into personal pieces – some rooted in Hirsch’s dreams and thoughts, some capturing morsels of reality – and pieces that seem to showcase Hirsch as a man of culture, fusing different sediments from the history of human civilization: pharaonic and medieval art, Christian iconography, Art Deco, Jewish art, echoes of Picasso and of the Russian avant-garde.