preparing earth for the people to come

On the 20th and  the 21st of February 2019, we visited the Gaza Envelope region. It is a territory bordering the Gaza Strip which suffers from the ongoing state of war between Israel and Gaza. The intent was to look for, and intensify local potentials for transformation, and perhaps participate in de/re- territorializaion. In a search for those potentials we started with the region's natural resort, and headed to Eshkol National Park. Walking its land, crushing its soil and naively climbing its dunes we immediately encountered with an all encompassing death. Sitting for meditation was beyond imagination, and most of our energies were invested in dealing with death while staying alive. Exhausted and disturbed we left the national park on our way to our zimmer. Every few tens of meters we saw mobile shelters scattered around. On the next day, we made a pilgrimage to the wall between Israel and Gaza - literally "the end of Israel", and joined the project of ...

Grains of Soil The route for peace is the name of the installation at Moshav Netiv Ha’asarah, we will visit tomorrow.  The following is a footage I found later on youtube describing  the situation for its inhabitants and the wall we’ll hopefully infest some life in tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvbzhPJ-E0k During my sitting today it felt even stronger the request to be experimenting with the grains of soil, as that which might orient for the path for peace. It didn’t take long for the warm embrace of the muddy soil to change into white sand. The image was of a beach and though the sun was shining and it could have been warm, I started shaking, and felt the cold creeping up my bones. As I continued sitting with the shaking it felt the violence emerging from the beach as raged persons were throwing rigid objects. I broke into tears and as the shaking grew even more. While a part in me was sending unconditional love to the beach neither the tears no...

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Encountering Karl Jaspers. Friday, June 27, 2014 at 6:05 PM Photo: Rivka D. Mayer and Canon EOS 550D Serial Number 71230993 Ima's jahrzeit.  Notes in my mother's handwriting, performing personal ceremony at the kitchen corner, with my mom's photo. Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 1:59 AM   Photo: Rivka D. Mayer and Canon EOS 550D Serial Number 71230993

* Open "read more" to see full image Sitting at my desk in my home in Tel Aviv, Israel Participating in reading group on skype 1929~ Box camera Tengor 54/2 takes visual notes It will take several weeks/months until the negative will be developed and scans will be seen on that same screen

Michel Serres: The Hard and the Soft Steven Connor A talk given at the Centre for Modern Studies, University of York, 26 November 2009. "Human beings, like all living creatures, take up space; they are driven to occupy particular portions of territory by the libido of belonging. Collectivities cement themselves through place, just as place confirms the singularity of the collective. That this impulse is perpetual also makes it paradoxical. It seeks to confine space and to confine itself to a space, but the impulse to confine and contain is itself unconfined and uncontained. Its tendency is not to sit still, but rather to propagate, to expand irresistibly into other territories. All living creatures are in essence imperialist, in that only the limits of the environment or other beings prevents their infinite expansion to fill all space – the head of the sunflower, blindly discovering and illustrating the Golden Section in its rage to pack as many seeds into the space as po...