Genesis
In the beginning there was nothing. Nothing but decay.
Then came someone with a can of paint. Then decay again. Then someone wrote something on a wall and someone else erased it. Then came someone with a camera.
At the end there was nothing. Nothing but decay.
Somewhere in between a world was created.
Urbanity, Part II: Singularity
“Be still my bleeding heart”
From Urbanity, Part I: Antimatter
When I finished working on Antimatter I thought of it as the ending of a story, and yet I named it Urbanity, Part I. I had a feeling the story has to continue — as if it is out there in the urban streets, waiting to be discovered.
For months I have struggled with the question how the story should continue, but I found nothing but dead ends. At the same time, visual fragments started to find their way into my Urbanity folder. I had no idea what they mean or what story they are trying to tell me.
It was only when I found the last fragment that all the pieces suddenly aligned in place and the story revealed itself. It was indeed the continuation of the story I thought ended exactly one year before.
Urbanity, Part II: Singularity - is now live at Warehouse Zero (where dreams don’t come true).
Fons Vitae: Portrait of a Street
Fons Vitae: Portrait of a Street | #1
I am walking up and down a street
a camera in my hand
I stop in front of a building
I hold still.
A young black girl approaches
“What are you doing” she asks
“I’m photographing the street” I say
“What’s so special about this street” she wonders
I pause for a moment and say
“Its name…”
The Re:Cover Project
I never played a musical instrument. I can’t read notes, and I can’t identify the cords of a song. Yet music was always a significant part of my life.
Years ago - in a different lifetime - music was a real obsession for me. This was before the time of MP3, iPod, Last.fm, and Jamendo. The only way to be an obsessive music junky back then was to buy records (sounds better than “buying CDs”), and the only way to discover new music was to listen to commercial radio stations and to watch MTV.
Being as obsessive as I was, this clearly wasn’t enough. (more…)
Urbanity, Part I: Antimatter
For more than two years, I’ve been wandering the streets of Tel-Aviv with a camera — trying to capture fragments of urban life and scenery. During one of my walks, I came by a flower.
It was a simple graffiti flower drawn on a wall as if it was placed on a street bench. The way this flower — a figment of someone’s imagination — was so naturally placed in the real world, drew me to a different world. A world in which matter and antimatter blend to create stories.
During the months that followed I collected more stories created on the boarder line of two parallel universes. Together, they form a bigger story. A story told by a city.
I am very proud and excited to present Urbanity, Part I: Antimatter.
“Antimatter” was on my mind for the past six months, since I saw that flower on the wall. Now, that all parts of the story are in place, I’m very excited to share it with you.
I hope you’ll enjoy the series. Please feel free to contact me and share your thoughts and feelings.