The musical score of Ravel’s Kaddish is six pages long. In SILENT PRAYER, the exact positions of the notes on the page are transcribed on six large panels. These are then marked with drops of black ink. Without the musical lines of the staff, these markings have completely lost their reference, rendering the melody impossible to reconstruct. The sparseness of the image and the dramatic effect of the drops express a deep sense of loss, akin to the Jewish prayer of mourning.