Flamingo (and now, with Tal's Poem)

 My friend, the poet Tal Nitzan, just published a new book. The name of the book is "Look at the Same Cloud Twice", and on it's back there is a beautiful poem about a flamingo - about the flamingo as the guardian of the Poet's solitude. Somehow, it reminded me of these images I took some time ago, although my flamingo is made of plastic and lives in the bathtub, not in a lake :).

The poem, by Tal Nitzan:

אִם

אִם תִּנָּתֵן לִי חַיַּת בְּדִידוּת

יִהְיֶה זֶה פְלָמִינְגוֹ.

כִּתְמוֹ הַוָּרֹד יֵרָאֶה לְמֵרָחוֹק,

רַגְלָיו הַמְהַסְּסוֹת-לִכְאוֹרָה

יְטוֹפְפוּ עִגּוּל סְבִיבִי

וְצַוָּארוֹ הַדַּק יִמְצָא תָּמִיד

אֶת הַמִּרְוָח הַמִּזְעָרִי

בֵּינִי לְכָל אֶחָד

וְיִכָּרֵךְ בִּמְסִירוּת עַל צַוָּארִי.

מתוך "להביט באותו ענן פעמיים" (קשב לשירה, 2012)

If

If I were given a solitude animal

it would have been a flamingo.

Its pink stain would be seen from afar,

its seemingly hesitant legs

would trace a circle around me

and its thin neck would always find

the tiny gap

between me and anyone

and loyally clench my neck.

"Look at the same cloud twice" (2012)

 

Bread and Roses

Sometimes I do different things, and it's always very difficult to choose what to publish (and what not to publish) in my lab. 

For example, since I began working on my solo exhibition (March 14-April 5, P8 Gallery, Jaffa), I haven't published any work concerning that project, so you all have a good reason to come, see some new pieces and have a surprising experience, I hope :). 

Nevertheless, here is a piece from another series of mine, this time documentary and quite different from my usual work, I think. The series is called Orot ("Lights"), and it includes 8 long exposure images taken in Tel Aviv beach during last summer, at night. 

This one in particular is going to be exhibited in "Bread and Roses" art sale (December 22, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv) organized by Maan, a worker's organization that promotes employment for Arab women in Israeli society. As every year, the profits from the art sale will go to Maan's project "Women and Work".

The Smile

Unpublished till now, this work was chosen to take part in "The Collective and The Collection" project, launched by Cuban artist Conrado R. Maletá and Israeli artist Naamá Sarid Maletá. You are more than welcome to go inside the link and take a look of some other awesome photographers from all over the world, participating in this revolutionary initiative:

http://tctcartproject.tumblr.com/

The next international exhibition of the TC&TC project is about to take place in November, in Rosario, Argentina.