Everything is a matter of proportion.

A pebble is a mountain to an ant, but the world looks like a pebble to an astronaut.

Shamai Haber plays with these elusive laws importing a double nature to everything he touches, so that small forms are made to seem gigantic and great forms are reduced to a human scale.

In his sculptures are mountains, grottoes, cities, cascade and the eye becomes an ant as it wanders through them.

And yet at the same moment, massive units lose their power to overwhelm and crush. The effect of large piece is human, the effect on its surroundings is humanizing Shamai succeeds in an important task: he does not impose his fantasms on us, nor does he withdraw into a cold formalism.

His touch is not autobiographical, it is human.

(Text by Peter Brook, 1977)