I was born in Israel in 1974, nine months after the Yom Kippur War. I was five years old when my family moved to a new town. My first memory from there was getting out of the truck that was transporting our belongings and meeting a woman who asked me who we were. I told her enthusiastically that we had come to live here and that we were relatives of my aunt, who already lived there. Her response was: "Oh, another family of Farsi miduna..." *   It was my first encounter with t

«С точки зрения молодости жизнь есть бесконечно долгое будущее, с точки зрения старости — очень короткое прошлое». Артур Шопенгауэр Oh God! May I be alive when I die. Donald. W. Winnicott Что может предложить терапевт пожилым людям, которые идут к финальному этапу своего жизненного путешествия? В этом материале я делюсь своим пониманием сути такой работы, их воспоминаниями и опытом. Всё это стало частью и моей жизненной истории. Я работаю со стариками, с их душой и телом. С т

On Being a Western Contemporary Ink Painter in Japan   I am a British ink* painter based in Japan and have been working in ink for many years. I studied calligraphy (Shodo), both ancient Chinese scripts and Abstract Calligraphy (Bokusho), for about 9 years, but I realized that however much I loved the Chinese characters themselves, calligraphy was always going to remain ‘other.’ I was not able to use it to express myself fully as it was not my language. My second stint with i

Plasticine as a means of dealing with life’s passages My journey with plasticine began when I was teaching the art of color mixing to my...