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JONAH

Pieces from the making of the most challenging piece I've worked on until now. It's a collaboration between me and my girlfriend AITCH, made in Holon, a town near Tel Aviv, Israel, during a cultural event called DETOUR, organized by the European Union and many cultural institutes from different countries.

The painting is made on a huge egg-shaped object, and is based on different ideas, intuitions, news - the grey whale which was seen a year ago in the Mediterranean Sea, near the shores of Israel; the story of Jonah who started his journey to Tarshish from Jaffa (now part of Tel Aviv), before he was swallowed by the great fish; the name of Jonah which also means "Pigeon".

Also, the weird drippings are the effect of the humidity - painted during the evening, some parts of the mural started dripping during the night till they almost covered the result of two days' work. It's up to each person who sees it, to say if it's a fuck up or an interesting accident.

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Uploaded on July 7, 2011
Taken on July 7, 2011