To witness each layer of a work of art that is deeply personal, emotional and intuitive is truly magical—especially when the artist has spent most of her life being a meticulous choreographer, with a sharp eye for recording every movement of dance by abstracting each part of the body, as if they were individual instruments in the orchestra of the body. 

Sunset by the Sea is a serene wall carpet made by Noa Eshkol around the time she gave up dancing and took to textiles as a channel for her creative expression. While her surrounding environment was marked with chaos, uncertainty and withering, she used discarded fabrics from her household and factories nearby, to create remarkably large wall carpets with her dance group, never using scissors to cut a single fragment. Rich in intuition, every single one of her wall carpets represents her mood—expressive in colour, forms and texture.

It is difficult but poetic to trace Sunset by the Sea to a world that was tumbling, withered in pieces—as the work individually seems to be suspended in a sky of beauty and calmness, evoking a feeling of hope. The sun setting reminds us of an inevitable dawn that approaches soon. Using patches of different textiles and repetitions of cloth patterns, it allows for the colours to wash over the viewer, bringing the same feeling as the sunlight falling on skin, the sound of waves that ebb and flow. While the process of the work appears in the beginning with disconnected scraps and cloths, it brings together a temperate and tranquil landscape, fitting in perfectly. It is a reassuring sight, being a work produced through the collaboration of Noa’s dancers, about the social fabric of the time and with humanity sewn together.