For all the Belgian readers of this blog

When Greenblue and Red-face woke up from their afternoon nap they were curious about this catalogue of the "Thirty Something" exhibition I am taking part in. I already wrote about this exhibition and about my work there.
The exhibition is going to travel to different locations in the following year or years, I don't have all the details about all the locations, but will update as soon as I will get them.
Tomorrow anyway, the exhibition will be opened at Antwerp, Belgium. You can see details here.
Unfortunately I am not going to attend the event (it is bit too far). Gerlinde, Herwig and all the rest of art organization art27 will be there, far as I know they also serve very nice beers and Belgian deserts, so if you happen to be around you are very welcome!

The Rosebud

Earlier today I sent this work to Belgium, it will take part in the Thirty Something exhibition organized by Art 27.
I met Gerlinde, herwig and Jan from Art27 last May when they came to see my exhibition at Maastricht. I was glad to take part in the exhibition they were organizing at abandoned medical center before it was demolished. I created my Buba installation for that exhibition.
This November they are opening another exhibition, this time the subject is the human right declaration. Each artist chooses one of the declaration's 30 articles and create an art work related to it.
I chose the article declaring the right for privacy.


For this exhibition I created the cloth rosebud.
The buds always get the protection of the petals before it gets out blooming. The importance of this process in the flowers world is very clear.
For me as a young girl this kind of protection was not so clear, as my parents chose to live in a socialistic community, more known as the Israeli Kibbutz, where kids were slipping together since they were three months old in separate houses then the parents were. I was raised like that till the end of high school.
The experience of having no private corner for myself as a child, brought me to be always bothered and anxious for my privacy as a grown up. For that reason it was clear to me that I would like to deal with this article.


When the cloth bud was done I began to shoot it from different directions and angles. Even though I created this piece by myself, I found out many details I didn't noticed before and was fascinated by it. The zoom shooting made the bud look different, details like the white thin thread I crocheted around the petals looked like a rope in the photos, and the delicate texture of the white silk fabric I used to create the bud itself looked like a rough linen. It seems to me that in the zoom shooting the tiny little bud looks like a weird creature, some kind of unknown animal or monster.
From more then 300 shoots of the bud I took I chose this one. At the background I placed my Geranium, you can't recognize it, it is blurred because I used wide-opened aperture. I just placed it there since I didn't want a plain background. When I look at the shootings it seems like the Geranium is looking back on me while shooting the bud or inspecting the

bud like a big brother.



On the side of the photo I decided to place the bud itself. I was interested in this kind of relationship between the object and its photo.

Sneezing, fever and cloth flower

Seems like someone doesn't like me much lately, it began about two weeks ago when I caught an awful flu. I was staying in bed with fever most the time, while I had thousands other things to finish.
Then we had some problems with one of our neighbors who totally freaked out (well sanity wasn't his main character before) complaining over and over again that Gal and me are too noisy, most of the time he is complaining about hours we were both sleeping (do you think it might be my dolls?)
Besides that there are other mysterious problems with my mail which I am not receiving (not e-mails but old fashioned mail you are receiving to your post box).
I didn't tell you yet about the holidays season here, when for three weeks most of the weekdays becoming days off so I can't even ask where my mail is, it is holidays, everything is closed.
But OK I will try to be more optimist, I did manage to do something at the last two weeks, when I had no fever I was shooting this cloth flower (made out of cotton and silk) you can see below, it is for a new art work I am going to send to Belgium soon for the new "Art 27" exhibition- "Thirty Something", but I will tell you more about tomorrow, I have to go to sleep now.

Summer and the dolls making

Sometimes it is so difficult to wake up at mornings, it's became so hot and humid here as it is every summer, we are just longing to September.
Even going to the grocery shop, a two minutes walk becomes such a difficult task, that I think twice if it is really necessary. Unfortunately I do have to go, to tech for example, or to buy brown threads which I got run out with, then when I am back i feel that part of me was just evaporated.

Staying home is better, and now I am making this new socks doll, she will be sent to Belgium at the end of the month to participate in a group exhibition "Suddenly Last Summer" organized by Art27, a Belgian independent art cooperative.
At least my doll would spent few days in a nicer weather.