The following story isn’t about my artistic evolution, nor does it have a clear moral, however, I felt it needed to be told. I wrote the story of Felix out of memory and imagination, so please consider it as a reality based fiction. And a word of caution to my regular readers: This post is longer …
Quite a few years ago, on a British Airways trans atlantic flight, I drank some red wine and listened to various albums from the world music collection. What I loved the most about this collection was its diversity and that I wasn’t familiar with most of the artists. I listened to a few songs from …
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It’s awesome to see your vision turns into reality, but sometimes it does not.Everyone knows that commodities prices are volatile. Due to growing global demand for chocolate, and forecasts of shortages in production in the future, Cocoa prices climbed higher in 2013-2014. My internal ideas bulb flashed. I thought I had identified a business opportunity, …
Recognizing a process of a personal change I am going through, usually triggers in me an urge to invent a new identity. Through a new identity, I find it easier to adjust to the new reality, to express my excitement and concerns, and to document the specific circumstances.In 2015, after a long period of efforts …
Some people radiate. Their light is not the physical light that is spread by objects such as the sun, bulbs or fireflies, but rather a spiritual light that emanates from the depth of their soul. These people can be any of the following: charming, funny, charismatic, good hearted, compassionate, or just truly nice. Their light is …
I was a bit disappointed when I completed this work. Not because I thought it was ugly, bad, or boring. It was because I’ve seen it before in my work. The same style and process. The abstract expressive tropical landscape in the background, with naive figures and objects in darker colors in the front. Again.Repeating …
Painting without any intention or goal is very liberating, however, quite often, the work itself leads me to a specific theme or idea. In this work, other than the fruit ice cream colors, I felt some kind of energy, and a movement of particles through a specific channel. Being quite ignorant in both physics and …
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While reading about grafting techniques of wild species of Cocoa, I had some philosophical thoughts about the entire subject of artificial reproduction; Trees vs. humans, the utilization and manipulation of genetic material, ethics etc. While recognizing the risks, threats and disadvantages, my personal biased opinion mostly supported such manipulations despite their unnatural nature. We are in the …
Since I became a father, I’m trying hard to be awake during the daytime, to be able to play with and take care of my kids, however, I cannot ignore or change my natural passion for the night. Since I was a teenager, I developed that nightly practice. When everybody sleeps and the streets are …