After traveling to points around the Tri-State area, the interactive Living Lights Menorah, a unique art installation by Chabad artist Yitzchok Moully, arrived in Crown Heights on Wednesday for local families to enjoy and experience.
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After traveling to points around the Tri-State area, the interactive Living Lights Menorah, a unique art installation by Chabad artist Yitzchok Moully, arrived in Crown Heights on Wednesday for local families to enjoy and experience.
Over the last number of years, in celebration of Chanukah, Chabad rabbi and artist Yitzchok Moully has shared the message of #LightOverDarkness in ever more creative and elaborate ways, including mobile and interactive murals designed to transform viewer into co-creator.
A co-visionary of last year’s Jewish Street Art Festival, Chanukah Edition, which featured eight murals by eight artists in eight cities over the eight days of Chanukah, Moully’s mural, entitled #ShareYourLight, showcased a larger-than-life-size mural of nine people holding up nine distinct torches to comprise the image of a human menorah, evoking the powerful truth that we human beings are the lights, shining our unique individual G-d-given gifts to our families, communities and beyond.
This year, Moully Art has transformed that powerful imagery into a real-life pop-up interactive installation, inviting you to literally step up and shine light to the world.
Standing 10 feet tall, 18 feet wide, the Living Lights menorah awaits “quietly in the dark” to unleash its light when ignited by the warmth of human touch. Participants are invited to step up onto the stage and touch-activate one of its eight luminous torches. A special light show is triggered when all eight are turned on in unison, signifying the truth that the whole of our collective light is greater than the sum of our individual parts.
The Living Lights Menorah was set up outside the Jewish Children’s Museum on Wednesday, offering Crown Heights families a chance to step up and share the light. Throughout the afternoon and evening, tens of locals and guests stopped by to try their hand at lighting the menorah, enjoying the unique Chanukah experience.
For more information and the full list of locations and schedule, visit: moullyart.com/livinglights
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