2months here :)

Today, November 8th is an important day for me.
Two months ago I made aliyah: immigrated to Israel. I left on the 7th of September and arrived on 8th.
It's an exciting day and it's also a day to assess where I am and where I want to go.

This morning I woke up and was very efficient in catching up with emails from friends.
Then, I rode my bike to the beach and found a spot between fishermen and families picnicking. I thought and wrote and came up with an idea for an art show that I would like to do: something resembling a road or way using drawings as lines, maybe buildings too with drawings as windows - the buildings would be painted on the wall probably. I just need a big wall :) I am setting a time for January, to find the space. I also thought of buying a place in Haifa, a live-work studio: something with tall ceilings, lots of light, and a separate sleeping section - or I can build up a loft?! I have to mention that I love Haifa; I am so touched by it visually: the beautiful beaches and the warm sea, the views from the top of Carmel. I also hear that it's inexpensive to buy now. Sharon (my friend from WUJS Arad Arts program that lives in Tel-Aviv) and I were talking about it; she thought that I could use my 401K for a down payment. But it's too soon to say what I'll actually do, this wouldn't be until February or so anyhow. I guess I am trying to establish myself / be permanent somewhere. I had a vision or maybe it was a fantasy of giving birth - I drew it - actually I drew it 1st before the vision - so the vision was my drawing - it's like asking what came 1st the chicken or the egg. But for now, I'm going to hold off giving birth to babies for a year or two, maybe just birth to ideas and the hard labor of love for language/communication, friends, companion, community, job, apartment, etc. :)

Which leads me to share the following:
I am working on an art project addressing the 5 things that I want to work on and wished for on Rosh HaShanah:
1.Peace (inner and outer) 2.Family (old and new) 3.Be Myself (hear myself, speak out, create reality, develop myself) 4.Live in Israel (language, friends, job, work, home) 5.Art (expression, give back to society through the arts)

The actual drawings vary from above; so far I've started:
1. a general one about happy new year and the hope/dreams of the future, 2. peace - like 'wild peace' from the poem of Yehuda Amichai, 3. journey - a flowering expansion with lessons and quotes, 4. open - the imagination and a call to my life companion, 5. a documentation of my creative process (don't know if it'll fit in this series) 6. inner struggle - dark thoughts and cries for enlightenment or clarity !!!