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Illustrations for an article in Alter Life Mag (חיים אחרים)

2020

Design for Culture of Solidarity X Rabbis for Human Rights current campaign raising funds towards vulnerable and marginalized communities affected by the war in Israel-Palestine: Crucial aid and food security towards survivors and evacuees from the 7/10 massacre facing poverty, Bedouin communities in the Negev, Palestinians displaced due to settler violence, asylum seekers and migrant workers.

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"Arrow"

Gouache, pencils, acrylic markers and pastels on paper

"Heart Attack"

Mixed media collage

27x35 cm

Artwork for Lily Haz's latest Foggy Liquids radio show on Noods Radio

mixed media physical & digital collage

Jewish New Year greeting card design

for my mum, a Chinese and Japanese Medicine practitioner

(to send out to her patients)

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Energy Is Eternal Delight Tee

Hand drawn custom

After William Blake

Art for Lily Haz's third Foggy Liquids show on Noods Radio

Four Seasons Mural

part of the Lessin Market Group Exhibition

site specific to Pasaz Hod, Tel Aviv

May 2022

video by Tamir Faingold

"Art Nouveaura"

3 colour a5 risograph booklet, edition o/o 59. 2022.

Diy printed and published as part of the Zinemachine residency program held at Ta Tarbut Mehoga, Tel Aviv.

Various spiritual beliefs consider an "aura" to be an encompassing energetic field surrounding a person, animal or object, similar to the religious halo - which has been used throughout the iconography of many religions to signify a figure's holiness or sacredness.  

Stemming from an aesthetic and thematic merge between notions of the holy halo/aura in art history; the organic, botanical, twisting and curving visual world of Art Nouveau, a movement that sought to express the harmony of nature in art and design, with a specific emphasis on the use of decorated and embellished frame/ornament forms; through the mystical and philosophical artworks of Romantic poet and painter William Blake, who seeked after the divine in the physical world and viewed imagination as the closest venture towards "the body of God" or "human existence in itself"; and examining Miró's surreal symbolism and pictorial language; I wish to unravel and delve in a poetic, scrawled, stained manner - into the fuse between humanity and the sublime, while repurposing a figure's frame/decoration as a spiritual aura. Crawling spider-esque creatures/thoughts/shimmers, earthly dreams and ethereal grounds. 

Heaven In A Wild Flower

30.5x41.5 cm

mixed media

“Faith In The Unseen”

50x70 cm

mixed media

“Ghost In A Shell / Host In A Hell”

mixed media

Logo for new local arts culture and politics riso magazine Magido

Art For Lily Haz’s 2nd Foggy Liquids show on Noods Radio

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