If you look closely at the picture on the left you can see part of a canvas painted blue. Perhaps it is too hard to see, obscured by the flowers, but the central shape on the canvas is a the spiraling shape of the nautilus... a snail!
When I lived in Tel Aviv last year, I would walk almost every day down to the see and strol along the beach. As a child, on the beaches of Fire Island I would collect purple shells- often used as sacred wamppum for the natives. I was walking along the beach in Tel Aviv and fell in love with the most beautiful indigo color snails.
I took some home with me. They died. I used their ink to paint with. This is the same ink that is used to dye the tzitztit - the sacred knots on prayer shawls , the same color as the planet earth viewed from space - the same color that comes flowing thru those little snails with the spiral universe shells.
I want to be clear with my intention. For myself, I intend to have a major project complete ( or at least 3/4th complete) by the end of my two year course. I need to give myself the time and space to create a large large work of art - detailing the 12 tribes of Israel. I envision a big panel for each tribe ..perhaps a 13th panel for Dinah, the 13th moon and the Ophiucus.
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