Garden of Eden

Ilan Stavans says of Garden of Eden:

If you haven’t paid attention, this is your chance to recognize the floral characters awaiting you in Paradise… there is no need to wait. Most of them are our companions here on earth and their magnificence is legendary. In the Garden of Eden Gloria Abella Ballen’s depictions are sumptuously executed.

--Ilan Stavans, author of The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin America

In the Bible, paradise is associated with “the Garden of Eden,” the place of beauty and perfection before the transgression by Adam and Eve. It was the perfect state that will be brought back in the world to come (heaven).

Speaking of Abella Ballen’s previous award-winning book, The Power of the Hebrew Alphabet Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi said, “In Jewish mysticism they [Hebrew letters] are also the building blocks of the universe. Enjoy the flight of consciousness this glorious book affords you.”

In Garden of Eden Abella Ballen is once again exploring the building blocks of our world and our consciousness as she explores the moral, ethical, and metaphorical meanings of the plants of the Bible, as well as their environmental, cultural, and economic significance.

About Gloria Abella Ballen:

Gloria Abella Ballen is an award-winning author creating art books such as The Power of the Hebrew Alphabet and The New World Haggadah, winners of multiple awards.

Abella Ballen has also won international awards in painting and graphics. Her art has been shown from Christie’s in London to Louis Stern in Los Angeles, from the Carrillo Gil Museum in Mexico City to the Bellevue Art Museum in Seattle. Her art is in the collections of museums, corporations and private individuals internationally.

She has been a visiting artist in England at the University of Essex and the Camberwell School of Art (London), in China at the University of Xinjiang and in Israel at the Mishkan Omanim in Herzliya.

ISBN: 978193560860. Paper. 210 pages 

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