Eyes, heads and news

 

The eye had been applied, and then removed and re-applied only a few days ago.

 

This past month has been long and full of events,

 But now, when the lady can finally rest, there is some news: Next to her, you can see the beginning of a new project I have been busy with lately.

Here you can see a bit more of it.

And here are some detail shots.
These heads - together with the lady - will be exhibited next mouth, along with other works, as part of a solo show I am going to present at Gam Gallery, right here in Tel Aviv. The opening will be on Saturday, September 24.
I will be back with more details soon.

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.

Story of a socks camera

Keeping on with my socks obsession as you can see.
When I quit my job as fashion designer about two and half years ago, I asked my father to borrow his digital canon G1 (He got it shortly before from his brother Ruvi, who decided to go back to the old camera film photography).
I was making my first doll, and was reading about the social net works and photo sharing web sites, I didn't know anything about it, neither about dolls making, I was just curios about both.
I could have unemployment allowance for two months, so I just stayed at home, obsessively made my doll, documented the process of making it, and shared the photos at my new flickr account.
It was definitely a great fun, I suddenly met so many people and received compliments about my work, which encouraged me to keep on.
I didn't feel much like looking for a new job, but as my unemployment allowance were run out I had to do something for living, I found a job at accessories design studio, it sounded great, but was one of the most boring jobs I have ever had, so I didn’t bothered much when I got fired from after a short while.
I decided to go back to the dolls making.
The rest with all the ups and downs already described at the archive of this blog.
My father never asked the camera back, I couldn't do what I am doing without this little help.
From one hand my work is really low tech, with all its needlecrafts and hand stitching which I learned from my mother and grandmother, but at the other hand without the hi tech technologies I wouldn’t even dreamed about all the things that taking place in my life today and meeting all the amazing people I am meeting every day.
I made this camera replication for my up coming exhibition this May at the Dutch city of Maastricht (I already wrote about it at the bottom of this post, more details available here), I am becoming more and more exiting about it, mainly when my ideas are getting shapes and forms.
It became too long post and I am becoming too tired so I will tell more about tomorrow.

Quilt

My quilt, socks applique quilt, done. I thought about it as a picture that should be hang on the wall, but as I completed all the stitching work, I was curious to test it in other forms too: