Be My Guest: Sappho, Anne Carson, Amy Thomas
Amy Thomas is an editor. She is the editor of my latest books. I shared my longing for the Ancient Alexandrian Library and Sappho’s burned poems with her. During that Zoom meeting, she pulled a book from the shelf and read to me from Anne Carson’s edition of Sappho’s fragments. Amy wrote about Lacuna and linked […]
James Torrell’s spiritual blueprint
If you look into artists’ childhood memories, drawings, and music and literature they liked, you will most likely see the connection to what they create as adults. The American artist James Turrell, whose art I love, illustrates this beautifully. Whenever I visit the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, I go to the space he created […]
Loris Malaguzzi’s blueprint
The Spiritual Blueprint phenomenon reveals itself in the artistic process of any creator. It embraces the essence of any creator’s actions, visualizations, thoughts, and feelings that are conveyed physically in the making of art. My observation is that every human being holds within them a combined heritage of characteristics, likes and dislikes, that make them […]
Be my Guest: Cennino d’Andrea Cennini
Cennino d’Andrea Cennini was an Italian painter in the 14th century. He worked in Florence and was inspired by Giotto His book The Craftsman’s Handbook is a foundation corner in the history of the art of the Renaissance. As an art student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in the 70ies, it […]
Be my guest: Mound Hacker at the Loris Malaguzzi Center
The ongoing art project to the memory of the burnet Alexandrian library develops a twist in its narrative; I began perceiving the educational activities and teachings in Studio Visits study group and at The Good Enough Studio blog, as an art project. In my mind, I am creating a shelf of knowledge about psychology, education, and humanism inside the ancient library. […]
My bookshelf in the Ancient Library of Alexandria
My grandfather told me the story of The Ancient Library of Alexandria. It has been present in my mind with a sense of loss since childhood. I imagined the burnet scrolls. What was in them? What have we lost? I imagine the toga-wearing scholars wondering about the gardens, conversing with each other, discussing Aristotle’s […]
Borrowed scenery: The Law of Preservation
The law of Preservation of Matter teaches us that nothing is added or deleted from the sum of matter in the cosmos, it only changes place and form. I participate in this change. Feathers picked on my morning walks in Israel were flown in a large iron bird and spread in the Kumano Kodo path in Japan, […]
Japan is the land of suggestions
Suggestion for painting and gluing Suggestion for relaxing your bare feet in a shrine Autumn suggested in your plate Framing suggestion Shadow suggestion Suggestion of space httpv://youtu.be/KR0E8CsSOnQ?t=4 Suggestion for ritual httpv://youtu.be/IeYc-0lZ_u8
Borrowed scenery 借景
Borrowed scenery is an interesting Japanese concept of relating to a public space as yours to share and enjoy. If a person sees a green mountain or hill from his home, he is lucky, and will definitely relate to it as part of his space and tiny garden. As an example of borrowed scenery for artistic needs, […]