Update/Change

14 December 2010 - I'm gathering images for the border to this piece. So far the motif seems to be the doorways of Safed, an olive branch, and/or museli from the Galil...about an inch wide accented by two small rectangles of gold metallic Japanese paper from Akamai art store in Port Townsend, WA.


New text! What a wonderful day - I am renewed, re-inspired, and in love with this ink. My heart celebrates this personal anniversary; Ari, z"l, the wind and the rain belong to you!

מודים אנחנו לך

Commission work Tehilim 121

Went to a fantastic art store in Palm Desert - the Blueprinter where I found exactly what I was looking for in a handmade, large scale paper. Excited to get started on this Hanukah project!

Literary Research - Zotero and Vue

Data organization constitutes the first step in literary research collection. I use Zotero as an organizer and Vue as my mind-mapping tool.

What I'm learning about the poem is that its history is fascinating. How striking that S Halevi's sister married Codero and that the Ari was connected.

The Lecha Dodi Project

Tonight noted the beginning of the Literary Research component of my lecha dodi project. I'm to learn at Pardes in J-town for three weeks this coming July. The fourth week in Israel will be spent in the North, in Safed. Meanwhile, I am touching base with Reuven Hammer's Or Hadash and its wonderful commentary on this significant poem.

My project is to consist of three parts: a calligraphed visual art piece, tying in with my association with the American Guild of Judaic Art, an original musical composition, and a commentary on the poem which unpacks and analyzes Lecha Dodi in light of its author, Sh
lomo Halevy Alkabetz (1505-1584).

I use Zotero and Vue to organize my work. I am a third year student at Pacifica Graduate Institute.