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Still life with a red ball - dedicated to Pachita who will trade a print of that with me for one of his works - and is a great artist worth watching!

This is one of a few images in my gallery that was actually thought out with some meaning in mind.
A few years ago we had an exhibition of local artists on my kibbutz, based on a historic book with chants from the early days of the Kibbutz (dating back to the 40's, I think).

Loosly translated the verse goes:
We shall dance inspite of everything
Make our heart forget the daily toil
Even so we will dance and sing
Who will grant us a happy festival?


Sound bad (the original rhymes...), but the setup in these old days was lots pf hard work with not much to show for it.

So I tried to show a combination of work, happiness, togetherness - all in the frame of a simple cummunal society...

There were a few versions: The original, the one presented in the exhibition was Out of The Garden. I wasn't happy with the light and played with it adding and eliminating things as I always do, ending with this one, and with Searching For The Answer.

The names came much later and have nothing to do with the original meaning...
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I keep coming back here and I am amazed at your use of compositional balance. What I can't seem to understand is that its not based on either golden ratio, on symmetry(octave) or asymmetry(fifths). The closest is kind of musically sacred geometry speaking cross between asymmetry pentatonic and some kind of mixed tri-tone/accidental ratio's. Its like ever so slightly off where it still floats yet snaps into harmony. There any chance at all you could discuss at any length how you learned such a fresh mix of negative/positive space balance? I am hoping you could give me some insight rather then having to systematically extrapolate whats going on.