Dinner with Penelope and Odysseus
…I sit with the ancient couple and we watch the sun set. I read to them the story of their life from the Hebrew translation. The sun went down long ago. Night and moon are here as a thousand years ago. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9McjxsPYoBY&feature=youtu.be More here: Arriving at Ithaka, A letter from Penelope to my readers Envelope […]
A letter from Penelope to my readers
Penelope writings, poem fragments were scattered on the island of Ithaca, 2012. httpv://youtu.be/vI5eK5DEK-U A tribute to Clio, a muse. More here: Arriving at Ithaka Dinner with Penelope and Odysseus Envelope Returning home
Arriving at Ithaca
כִּי תֵּצֵא בַּדֶּרֶךְ אֶל אִיתָקָה שְׁאַל כִּי תֶּאֱרַךְ דַּרְכְּךָ מְאֹד מְלֵאָה בְּהַרְפַּתְקָאוֹת, מְלֵאָה בְּדַעַת httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-8zeepjadE When you set out for Ithaka ask that your way be long, httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urH6ChbRl1w&feature=plcp Σα βγεις στον πηγαιμό για την Ιθάκη, να εύχεσαι νάναι μακρύς ο δρόμος, γεμάτος περιπέτειες, γεμάτος γνώσεις. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzvInv-T4Qw&feature=plcp The first lines from Ithaka by Constantine […]
Euclid diagrams in Greece
As I strolled in Kyoto Zen gardens during the summer of 2011, I found Euclid everywhere helping me anchor. It was tremendously hot and humid even for me coming from the Mediterranean. There were almost no tourists, and I felt out standing. Unexpectedly, Japanese approached me and wanted to talk; They shared the nuclear disaster. […]
Join my voyage to Ithaca-you might win an art work
I will be sailing with friends to Ithaca. I am reading simultaneously a tourist book and The Odyssey. I mark in yellow details Homer wrote about Ithaca. With my love to the Mediterranean sea, respect to the Phoenicians, memory of Ancient Alexandria Library – I will happily be the second skipper on a small yacht. We will […]
Alexandria remains
Images of Alexandria Library are on my mind. Playing in the sand tray – visions emerge: a scribe and scrolls. Euclid in Greece sits next to another scribe, connected through a golden triangle to an Egyptian on the south bank of the Mediterranean Sea. Δ Under the library, in a cellar, with a flashlight […]
View
The Mediterranean views, land and sea, in art and literature – are a part of me; If I contemplate on them from above as of from a plane – they turn out to be abstract. When I observe them from the side, they become symbolic. If I apply blue, I bring the ocean and sweet water […]
Be my guest: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Predag Matvejevic, Janine Antoni
“We need a port of departure: A shore or view, an event or a story. The place we are leaving is less important than the one we will arrive at.“ Breviare Mediterraneen, Predag Matvejevic Hiroshi Sugimoto/ Time Exposed: A presentation of some of Sugimoto’s photographs from the portfolio “Time Exposed.” The portfolio consists of 50 […]
Taming the Ox and Avraham Ofek
The year of the ox, 2010, was celebrated by a a weekend seminar with my calligraphy group near Caesarea beach. We learned the ancient Chinese story Taming the Ox. As we practiced the ancient sign, I surprisingly recalled the ox as part of the first Hebrew letter – Alef – א It is derived from the word Alef, meaning the first, […]