“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up” – Pablo Picasso.When I was a child, I wasn’t an artist. I had an amazing childhood in Israel, which gave me the confidence to follow my heart when I grew up. During my spiritual search period, long before …
Perhaps the most basic technique to enter a meditative state is to focus your attention on your breathing, and that’s why Free-diving is inherently meditative. Free-divers exercise breathing before and after they dive, and during diving they hold their breath until they resurface.When diving in the open sea, the longer you hold your breath, the deeper you can go. …
Do you ever imagine yourself in a perfect universe? Is there anything in this world that keeps impressing and inspiring you time after time?In 2013, being back in Israel, I found myself complaining a lot, mainly because I kept comparing it to the Dominican Republic, where I lived before. However, Israel itself, apart from its …
A few years ago, my artist sister, Carmit, concluded that she must sometimes escape the rush of the center of Israel. She found a haven in the north of Israel, in the old city of Acre (Acco/Akko in Hebrew), where she established her studio “Cinabu” in an arched ceiling shop, inside the old Turkish Bazaar. …
Nothing in life compares to the wonder of becoming a parent. It was the single most empowering, inspiring and gratifying event that I experienced as a human being.In July 2013 my girlfriend and I became parents to an amazing baby boy. We immediately fell in love with him and became the two most devoted fans of …
“The scuba diver dives to look around, the free diver dives to look inside.”I don’t know who said it first, but this phrase emphasizes an essential difference between scuba diving and free diving. I am a free diver, and when I painted this work in November 2013 in Eilat (Israel), my inside was full of …
Ever since I was a child, in Israel, in the troubled Middle East, I have heard leaders from both sides blame each other for not being committed to the peace process, as an excuse for not vigorously pursuing peace.Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder once sang together:”Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, Side by side …