These works draw on ideas from Jewish mysticism. Each image is divided by a vertical split, echoing the form of a gate opening or closing. In Kabbalah, the combination of the ten sefirot and the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet forms the “32 Gates of Wisdom,” a system for understanding how divine energy moves into the world.The split functions as a threshold, holding the image between states and suggesting a passage between physical and metaphysical space.