Sand Art Performance
was always
enchanted by the ability of hands to
express emotions
like love tenderness anger the initial
idea was to create a show based on hands
movements
and music from the moment i touched the
scent
i fell in love with it because of the
simplicity
i admired simplicity
in this kind of art you have to use the
basic that god
has blessed you with scent hands
and soul i made a small clip
and i sent it via email to a few of my
friends in israel
in two weeks my life changed
i have received feedback from all over
the world
thousands of emails suddenly
i realized just how many hearts this
kind
of art attached with the expression of
my prayer
of my dream we traveled
all over the world i performed in the
vatican
kremlin in front of king of spain
king of belgium we’ve seen
wonderful views historical places
but the most exciting thing was the
meeting with people
i realized again and again
that wherever you live
to which religion you belong everyone
wants love everyone wants
friends
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i always try to express some messages
in every piece i draw most of these
themes
are abstracted difficult to illustrate
during one of my performance someone
in the audience cried out elena can you
create
a send video that would demonstrate the
values of loyalty
and devotion i decide to accept the
challenge
this is a story of a man who decided to
go
out into the world seeking adventure
and risk yet he knows which
certainly that should he ever
be in true danger there will be those
back home who will come to his rescue
because home is where the heart is
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so
i got married when i was 20 years old
and became pregnant immediately i was
the happiest woman in the world thinking
of course
that i had discovered pregnancy before
anyone else had it was yom kippur
the holiest day for the jews
there is no such day in the world there
are
no cars on the road no television
people fast and silence
complete silence my husband and i
were out walking suddenly
a sharp scream of a fighter plane
broke the silence my husband stopped
short
looked at me and whispered ilana
this is war and disappeared to join his
squadron
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on the third day of the war there was a
knock
on my door all my life i had dreaded the
sound
of a knock on the door in the middle of
the night
i knew would be standing there what they
would be
wearing and what they would say
but never could i have imagined the
reality of this evening
never could i have imagined the people
coming
in and out of my house
never could i have imagined sitting
shiva
mourning on my husband’s laws
never could i have imagined the
emptiness
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four months later i went to the hospital
and i gave birth to my son i called him
draw which means in hebrew freedom
my husband isik didn’t know that he had
a son
he was a he was in a tiny cell so
tiny that he couldn’t even stand up
he was unable to tell night from
days because he was in a dark
all the time he was frozen from the
syrian winter
and all he could think about was whether
or not
he would be given food and worse of all
was a terrifying sound of
pounding on it on the door which means
more interrogations and tortures
after eight months in the prison
of damascus it came back
he came back and he met drawer
when drawer was four months old
twenty years later to the day drone
became pilot in the same squadron as his
father
seven years ago i sat shiva again
mourning on my beloved husband again
but this time no miracle had happened
one hour before he left me he looked at
me and through my tears
i whispered what should i do without you
you are the love of my life i don’t know
how to live without you
he looked at me and said you must
continue with your art
with your performances in my heart i
promised
yes i will but not without you
you will be with me on stage
you will be with me on the same table
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i can’t stop praying and dreaming
for peace if you come to my country to
israel
just walking on the street you could
hear the whisper of this
prayer from each and every heart
try to imagine how the world could be
no war no hatred not prejudice
imagine what fill with tolerance
compassion
love just imagine
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