The Creative Way
The world of arts and crafts has been with me throughout my entire life, ever since I can remember myself. Sitting by a table full of colorful markers, white papers and a pair of scissors, was commonplace for me. I used to imagine fantastic situations depicting figures, animals, houses, landscapes and their mutual dynamics.
After imagining all the small details, I started drawing. I drew the figures and made them a wardrobe of clothes. I drew pets, family members, houses with their rooms and furniture. I found it important for me to differentiate between a daytime play and a nighttime one in order to know which celestial bodies to draw, and which colors to use.
After everything I had chosen to draw was drawn on the paper sheets, I cut them out one by one, with added foldable parts, knowing that I would like to place them on the table. Once the creative process completed, before me was a three-dimensional illustration of what I had imagined. I played with them as one plays with dolls and toys.
Later I added many more items and materials like plasticine, paper pulp, clay, chalks, watercolors, oil, sewing. The artwork continued flowing through me naturally as a way of life till this day. This is my home. When I say home, I mean first of all an inner home.
One of the most important things I learned from the creative process is the ability to connect internally to the hidden unconscious world. To identify symbols, archetypes, hidden dynamics, internal movements and messages, and drive them out to consciousness. That I have the ability to create games through which I can understand new things about the inner and outer reality.
Painting is one of my great loves. At the age of 16 I started painting professionally in an artist studio of the painter Eliad. I learned the basics of realistic painting through drawing and painting in oil paints, chalks and pastels.
I continued studying painting also in the academia, digital graphics and intuitive painting workshops. At the same time also, I taught myself to paint with acrylic paints, pencils and watercolors.
When I was pregnant with my son, I painted a series of paintings in acrylic paints. My inspiration for the paintings came from a meditative inner process through guided imagery. In this process I lead myself to distant worlds and dimensions, landscapes and forms that exist in the infinite fantastic space of the universe.
The obtained information undergoes mental and emotional processing as a means of expression of a mental and cultural value. One of these paintings, "Alice in the Holy Land," won me the "Hermann Struck Prize for Painting and Plastic Art."
The deeper I went in the connections between art and body and soul the more I felt the need to professionally learn makeup beauty, effects and stage.
Body painting has also evolved into a therapeutic painting technique that incorporates intuitive painting on parts of the object’s body.
The use of painting as a visual means of translating content from the unconscious to the conscious, is a key in the holistic worldview and phenomenological approach that has accompanied me over the years.
The creation of my first significant artistic diary. When I was 19, I went through a challenging period following a temporary breakup from the partner I had then. We lived together as a couple even before the age of 18. I loved him very much.
In the middle of my military service, he was discharged from the military and like any other young Israeli decided to go on post-military trip with a friend. I suffered greatly from this separation and did not know how to get through this period emotionally.
To my great joy artwork has always been there for me as a good and supportive friend. I recalled that when I was a child, I had a diary in which I use to occasionally write what I was experiencing in my life and how much I loved to draw drawing in it when I got lost of words.
I bought a large notebook and started creating in it one page for each day he was on his trip. On each page I wrote what happened to me that day. Sometimes these were songs, sometimes a story or free associations. There were pages where I created a collage, pages where I drew with colored pens, watercolors, or crayons. Some of the pages I cut, stitched with thread and needle, and even burned the edges.
The daily art piece freed me from holding inside unresolved issues, a voice asking to be heard, an emotion seeking to go out into a safe space. I wrote and created the visual diary every day for over a month. When my boyfriend returned from his great trip, I gave him the diary as a gift. His mother secretly told me that he did not put it away for several days until he read every word, I wrote in it.
This taught me that an art piece that comes from the heart, from an authentic and connected place, enters the heart. That art creation is a safe way to communicate an intimate personal experience with loved ones. This technique supported me during challenging times when I felt stuck in life.
Soft felt sculpture has been a significant milestone in my professional and artistic life. When I was 21, I studied fashion design and teacher training at Wizo College and later at Shankar College.
I loved every minute of these studies. The courses were taught by some of the best teachers in Israel, with fascinating contents of the history of art, psychological effect of colors and their use in the advertising world, product design, fabric chemistry, painting, sculpture, fashion design for diverse body types, and many more.
Around my mid-twenties I realized that I was more attracted to the artistic aspect of creative art and less to the industrial commercial element, and that led me to look for ways to express an experience that combines my love of fashion design with the passion for artistic creation.
This is how I came to develop a technique of sculpturing with layers of colored felt fabrics. I quickly realized that there was something unique here because in the work process I combined words and greetings between the sculptures’ layers. It is something that stem from my deep inner need to transfer the abundance and joy in my heart to the art piece itself.
I exhibited the sculptures in many individual and group exhibitions, some of them are in the private collections of Israeli art collectors. Furthermore, the sculptures and products derived from them were sold throughout the country in boutique stores and at a stand in Nahalat Binyamin.
Later in life I came across for the first time a family constellation at a shamanic retreat in the desert (a place to retreat from the outside environment in order to delve into inner spiritual experiences and study variety of holistic therapy tools).
My teacher, Yishai Gaster, took out of his suitcase a pile of colorful felt fabrics and explained that these were representations of various characters and subjects.
Here I connected with the intuitive feeling I had when I developed the sculpturing with felt fabrics, I came to realize the fact that I have always been connected to the field of the family constellation, that this is a collective knowledge that lies within me and which I had the privilege to know even before I met the family constellation in its official form.
The creative path is a way of life that continues to evolve with the natural evolution of life. The knowledge I have gained over the years I translate into applied tools that I teach in courses and workshops.
The creative path is suitable as a means of individual and group development in all areas of life. The website presents occasional updates regarding new workshops and courses.
