A cup of Beduin tea at the tea ceremony. “Le Haiim” - to life!!!
"What is it we see when we look to the East? In western eyes, the East always represented the other, as mystery or as threat, and more often than not - both. But what we refer to as East, be it near, middle or far, doesn’t naturally exist.
It is in fact many things. It is the direction of the earth’s rotation and where the sun rises. It is the direction the wind takes in many cities in the world. It is a absolute direction on the compass. It is an unmarked borderline of cultural meeting points. It is alternative philosophies, ideologies, cultural habits. It is sometimes simply what is east of what we stand, and sometimes what we feel is ‘east’ of our point of view.
From a city which is in itself a junction between who oppositions, Jerusalem Design Week 2019 tackles the sensitive question of the East. it does so not by rotating the view eastward from a western vantage point, nor by looking at its past of cultural exchange and political conflict. In fact, it will not look TO the East, but AT the East - as a term, a direction, an absolute point of reference , and the set of relative relationships it generates. as future not folklore.” - excerpt from the Jerusalem Design Week 2019 publication
A day VERY well spent!!
Palestinian embroidery embedded in a designer lamp
Young Palestinian designer standing by her work
Calligraphy based on old manuscripts originating from Iraq, Yemen, Iran and Morocco
…when Siri is leading us in meditation …. :)
Kazuma - traditional Japanese Dying technique
“The common thread” - portraits of the Arab workers of Hansen House drawn with thread by a CNC machine!
CNC machine in action
Origami meets Ikebana meets the Jerusalem summer light