Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Arez, directions

Ibrahim has no horses
nevertheless
his name is 'BRHM
"He who creates new directions" 



Sunday, September 28, 2014

The Second Name


                         

       
                                           

                                         picture courtesy of  the U.e.F Art Gallery Archive


 "Umm el Fahem is also Known as Balad El-Maia Wa'yen, the city of the hundred and one springs. The presence of a high 
groundwater table is responsible for the many springs that used to flow in the area." 

(from the Umm el-Fahem Trail tour)

Saturday, September 27, 2014

The Head


There is the Charcoal and then, there  is earth.
"Springs are a thing of the past", 
they are buried under traditions.
Where do I have to go to fill up my bottle?
The Mount Iskander was so beautiful.
This is  is not written anywhere.









Testing the ground



















Wednesday, September 24, 2014

First Mask



                                                            The Mask of Wadi Ara .

From my book of sayings




There is certainly always a shadow,
 the longer it gets, the later the hour.









Building Contractor

Shahar
Haenen
Thean
Esnan



     

 Hair
  Eyes
  Teeth
  Mouth




  Heege
 Hid
 Rakabi
 Botin


   Leg
   Arm
   Neck
   Stomac
                                                             
                   

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Ein, Ayen, or water from within




The Mother of Charcoal 

was then a vast, silent, bright cradle for her springs:

                                             

                                      












                             Ein El-Zeitun, Ein El- Nabi, Ein El- Moulka, Ein Mualka, Ein El-Uasta, Ein Haled






                                   and hundred and one,  filled the jars of new brides.






Sunday, September 21, 2014

Roads at dusk on the Wadi Ara.


 The Wadi Ara was the main commercial route connecting Mesopotamia and Egypt.
Its roads were opened up by the first horses to be known in here.



"Horses is like money", says Hala.





Saturday, September 20, 2014

giving shape is finding shape




photograph : Khalil Ra'ad
Collection: Buki Boaz

giving shape is finding shape





Photo from Umm el Fahem Art Gallery Archive

Thursday, September 18, 2014

"Do you like Horses? come with me" said Hala



Many of the names given to tracts of land here can be traced back to local folklore.
The El-Acil plot was named after the pure bred arab horse which was once traded in this land.
Another plot, Asafah (forehead) was named after a horse with a peculiar-shaped forehead."

" From "The Umm el-Fahem Trail tour",  Ed. UEF Art Gallery"


                                        





Mr Said invites me to join the very special gathering. "You are most welcome Mela".
The table, surrounded by Arabs, Palestinians and Israelis. Someone says : I spent two years in Venice.

The work done so far.
Hopefully, this is going to become an option for creativity, exchange, reconciliation, knowledge.
A place where differences rest as such to become value.



             


Four quarters

"Four families formed the first settling nucleus. Large clans (hamoulas) grew from them, whose offspring wove close relationships, until the difference blurred and the inhabitants of Umm el-Fahem all became a big family.









Life in the village ran its course with close affinity between man and his surroundings."
Said Abu Shaqra
(director of the Umm el Fahem Gallery and my kind host)

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Stop at The Mother of Charcoal. Umm el-Fahem



"The Carob trees that used to grow in the area have all but disappeared due to the charcoal industry that lent the place its name"
(from Umm el-Fahem Trail Tour, Ed. UeF Art Gallery)

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

The Universe is a net in which we are tide to the land




First Vision


harta
wardi
abab hadid
malavella





map
flowers
iron gate
crank

Around the corner, upwards


sakhet
lamba
shubec
saab
                               

    ceiling
   lamp
    window
   door
            

Monday, September 15, 2014

Tiferet


ZaFoN
NeGeb
QeDeM
YaMaH

                 

  North
  South
    East  
   West 
                 

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

uRu SHaLim

YeruShalYim.  Founded by the Dusk

9/9/14 Tzedakah










Ina, Ina and Marie are three german girls who moved to Galillee, one year ago, to take care of survivors from the Holocaust guested in an elderly guest house. The younger among their patients is 75, the older just turned 97. Ina and Ina are perfectly alike, but neither twins os siblings. Marie is the third one.
Has their Tzedakah  ended?

Monday, September 8, 2014

"Message in a bottle, Giona"

                                                                          Qo
Mela + Ubik Teatro

prologue