Dr. Lea Mazor, The Hebrew University
In a Jerusalem city park at the corner of Alcalai Street and Benjamin Disraeli Street, near the Jerusalem Theater, stands a sculpture of a white horse with butterfly wings. The sculpture is the work of artist and Jewish studies scholar Dr. Esti Meir, who created it to honor the memory of her father, Yitzhak Meir (1934-2020). He was a diplomat, educator, author, poet, thinker, and a man of vision and action. She named the sculpture “We Were Like Dreamers” because, in her father's world, dream and reality were one.
At the unveiling ceremony on May 15, 2024, Dr. Meir said the sculpture was meant to express the connection between dreams and reality. A dream creates reality, and reality surpasses all imagination. Yitzhak Meir's strength of spirit, his great insight, an intellect deeper and wider than the sea, and his immense personality are all embodied in the horse. The horse breaks the chains of the rock, the bonds of reality, and the present itself, leaping toward the distant horizon he once dreamed of. The wings of the horse are those of a butterfly—transparent and delicate—because they are pure dream.
The base of the sculpture is carved from granite stone from the Golan Heights. The body of the horse is carved from a white Galilean stone. The artist wanted the work, placed in the heart of the State of Israel, to be made from a stone from the heart of the Land of Israel, as she believed her father would have wanted.
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