ByGiora Carmi
Be the light in you Beyond the clouds of thinking There are playgrounds With no words The sun will speak with you Of being wild and transparent Look The sun has made a boot for you And on the boot it wrote: Come. I used to be a graphic designer and an illustrator. …
ByGiora Carmi
I look at my last drawing. The shape in the middle feels like a heavy package with several parts, almost floating heavily in a space that seems to be organized like a room on stilts. There is night in the window and a warm light is reflected from the floor. There is something that looks…
ByGiora Carmi
It is on the longish side today and a bit psychological. I started to draw when I had a very strong pain. I held on to the act of drawing as to something that saved me from sinking in a bog of pain. I did not want to loose my humanity. I also held on…
ByGiora Carmi
It looks to me at first that I have nothing to say. Then it comes to me that the balance is important. It is like a very complicated collection of so many different shapes and colors, and it all has to be in balance. What do I mean by balance? I mean that when you…
ByGiora Carmi
In this painting there are three major systems: The lines, which are in purple, olive green and one little line is in blue. The areas of color that appear to be behind the lines. The red areas that are inside of shapes, delineated by some of the purple lines. Many times it is enough to…
ByRobyn Harris
I came across a post on Facebook the other day that shared a wonderful TED Talk given by Susan David (The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage). That, and some conversations I’ve had recently, got me thinking about why I do what I do. Susan grew up in South Africa during apartheid which affected her…
ByGiora Carmi
The intention was to paint the inside of all the shapes in the drawing, And to come out with the colors at the top of the shapes. First let me do the way that each color comes out and up a little bit from its designated area, I said to myself. These are the tricky…
ByGiora Carmi
It has a sense of order. It has a sense of belonging (parts belong together), of keeping harmony. It has a sense of playfulness. Cleanliness. Clearly it speaks about front and back. But they are very close to each other. There is no depth here, except in the white that may go to eternity. There…
ByGiora Carmi
When I illustrated ’The Chanukah Tree’ I was in a period in my illustration in which I was very aware of every single brushstroke that I made. It had to feel a certain way. I can remember the feeling that I sought. Now imagine: How many brush strokes were there in the book and in…
ByGiora Carmi
In the foreground there is a gate and above it is the agitated activity of the lines that look like branches of a tree. When we come to the blue lines in the upper part, the character of the lines changes and becomes more like the movements of playing, wondering and inventing. See that? The…
ByGiora Carmi
When I started this blog, one of the first things I wrote, was about the question: What is art good for? Today it became clear to me in a different way, with the morning writing. Art is a way to experience fully what is usually covered and obscured by our filters. Why is it important to experience…
ByGiora Carmi
Maybe it is strange, but these days nothing is more pleasant to me than sitting quietly somewhere and watching the interface with the quiet space that is always there, seeing how a few moving things in my mind calm down, feeling the body relaxing and staying there. A person passes in the street on his…