Small Steps

Simple, small steps makes you more aware of the present, the beauty around, the variety of nature!

Autumn in the northern Israel

                               
                               


             Bird migration might be also an 
             interesting subject in this area:
                                 http://www.carmelbirdingtours.com/birding-sites.html

Eco in Israel

Waiting to enter!!!

Umberto Eco is giving a lecture in Tel Aviv University

"The Confessions of a Young Novelist"

...but where is he? Everybody is waiting to enter! NO more seats!!! Hundreds of people in the entrance hall, others outside in front of the sliding glass doors that don't slide anymore.

In Israel, invitations are on big scale, organisation on minimal scale. Is it a game of power or just planning for the size of an ant? Closing doors in front of the guests is the new method of attracting more people? Sometimes it works... 

The Locals

Students, professors and guests waiting

Is there any chance?

Hopeless and tired

Hands up!

Better eat than just look!

Guards enjoying

The animator

What a public event! A manifestation!

Can't see the light!

Finally I decided to leave this event, because there was no chance to enter. The power of the guardian is what matters in the end. Therefor I went outside to enjoy the springtime and a good coffee.

Actually, there where many other huge halls at the University Campus of Tel Aviv. Maybe it wasn't expected that Eco will be such a super star. Originally, he was invited to the International Book fair in Jerusalem. There was a whole week session of famous writers, some of them Romanians.  The lecture in Tel Aviv University was just an extra add to Umberto Eco's trip and success among intellectuals of Israel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZM1ApaFrKo

 http://topnews360.tmcnet.com/topics/associated-press/articles/2011/02/26/148776-novelist-umberto-eco-opposes-boycotts-israel.htm

Children Between Walls

Exhibition at Cafe Neto

Haifa, Israel                 

            by Simona O.M.

Our lives are surrounded by walls. These walls are found around old cities, Medieval Citadels, public buildings and private houses. Some Walls are built to protect people, others to separate them.

Children who grow up enclosed between walls are often limited to a certain physical and mental space, dictated by their society. Once they get out of these walls they can discover a brighter world, and experience the freedom to explore their individuality.

Most of the children in these photos are at a transitional stage between childhood and adolescence. They try to surround themselves with walls that will protect them from the outer world. Some kids are tougher, others are softer, some allow themselves to smile, others are too shy. I tried to capture some of their inner beauty.

Children everywhere are joyful, authentic and innocent regardless of the certain walls of family, society, religion and nationality that surround them.

Alladin

The Three Musketeers

Cindarella

Ali Baba

Alice in Wonderland

Alshech

Alfonso

Al Jundi

Allah Akbar!

Alpacino

The seven heavenly virtues

Exhibition at "Humanitas" Bookshop, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

December 2009

For the welcoming of Jesus Birth, the Christian Fasting time started and the religious conscienceness is growing. The most important virtues that one should develop are the following seven :Purity, Temperance, Charity, Persistence, Patience, Kindness and Humility.

1. Purity

"Baby Mihael"

2. Persistence

"The Golden Ball"

3. Temperance
"The Sea of Galilee"

4. Patience

"Fisherman"

5. Generosity

"The wishing well in Cisnadioara"

6. Kindness

"Woman making wool in Ieud"

7. Humility
"Keep knocking on Heaven's Door!"

9.9.9

What is this day about?

9th of September

It's Saint Anne's Day

The day my beloved grandmother Ana died...

The day I saw again photographs in front of my eyes

The day I deciede to fight for my own ballance

I want to learn

I'm here to give

It's so simple

One day like this you just see

There is light

Life cycle

Exhibition in Cluj- Napoca, Humanitas Bookshop

by Simona O.M.

Water is the primary element in the forming life of the embryo.

During puberty, the physical body is yet undefined.

Later on, it becomes just a shadow in the midst of society.

During the years, the soul looks for it's partner, trusting there is another shadow similar to itself.
As years pass by, the ego shrinks, partners are closer to each other, together looking forward to the end.

In the final stage, the water leaves the body, which comes back to the earth.

As for the spirit – nobody knows where it is flying.

Embryo



Puberty



Society



Love



Reflection



Aging



Dissolution

Wadi Siah Festival

by Simona O.M.



One of the most beautiful valleys (wadi) in Haifa leads to the spring "Ein Siah", meaning also the spring of communication.
Many pools are created from that water, that once belonged to the Arab family Khayat, called "The Garden of Khayat". Nowadays, Eyal Friedander is the focalizer of the Coaltion "Bustan Khayat".During the year he is taken care of the place and once a year he's organizing a big festival with music, food, street acrobats and other activities. It seams very natural to be there between Jews and Arabs, without politics. The City hall didn't support the event, so there was no security, no guns, no force.

Ein Siah

Overview

Children peeing from above


Busy organizer


Food from the local families


Their children

Michael, the acrobat

Capuera dance
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Musicians


T-shirts with "Bustan Khayat"


Party in and around the pool

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