‘A Touch of Heaven’ – Guided mediation for relaxation, with Natalie Dekel.
Why meditation? Every day I wake up with the question: what awaits me today? and is it all worth it? To find an answer I look up to nature: I notice the birds singing in the morning, the trees dancing in the wind, and the first daffodils coming out. Perhaps the answer is just to live every moment fully as if it is the only moment that ever exists? But how can we live ‘every moment...
Read MoreThe Place Of All Answers.
By ‘Ever-rest’ (Spirit Guide channelled by Natalie Dekel, with Gil Dekel). Some people live comfortably, yet not knowing who they are, they are trapped… Even if you surround yourself with comfort you can still remain uncertain. Only knowing who you are can bring you the peace and tranquillity your heart desires. As long as you limit the potential of who you are, you are...
Read MoreOn Grief.
By the ‘Supreme Light’ (channelled by Natalie Dekel, with Gil Dekel). A tree does not grieve for its leaves when they fall. It lets them fall knowing that it is their time to have freedom, and soon the tree have new leaves. Everything has its time and place. Many people hold on to grief and with it pain, and we wish to help them. Some are very brave by letting their loved one...
Read MoreSeeing the Bigger Picture.
A ‘Passing Spirit’ (channelled by Natalie Dekel) in a conversation with Gil Dekel. Passing Spirit: Underneath all there is pure and unconditional love, but it got twisted and tweaked about by the time it comes out in your world. You can see pure love in children; just watch how they love their parents. Now, every child bears the memories of his parents – partially to...
Read MoreWorking with Encaustic wax paintings: I See What I Believe.
By Natalie Dekel. The following paintings were created using coloured-wax applied with heated iron onto glossy cards. This technique is called encaustic wax. The technique involves the application of coloured wax onto a heated iron, which causes the wax to melt. When it starts running on the surface of the iron it is applied to the card to create patterns. Working with this particular method...
Read MoreДневник скорби.
Натали Дэкель. » English version. Последние восемь лет мама боролась с раком. Я находилась у ее постели и это – дневник последних трех недель. Ее трех недель. Даже в самых тяжелых ситуациях не теряйте веру, именно она станет...
Read MoreThe Grieving Diary: last weeks with my mom.
By Natalie Dekel. » на русском Read in Russian. Mom was battling cancer for the last eight years. This is my diary of being besides her bed, in her last three weeks. Have faith even in the most difficult situations because underneath the mud and the rubble is a core of steel in you. A core of steel that is not bending with the weather or circumstances. It is as strong as the ...
Read MoreConceptual Graphic Design.
Black Circle That is Going to Be. Flash Artwork. 2008. Gil Dekel. “What interests me is not the square or the circle, but what is in between the two: the artistic process by which one becomes the other.” Gil...
Read MoreFinding a Voice.
Short interview with academic and painter Barbara Howey. Natalie Dekel: I know from reading your PhD thesis that your mother’s passing led you to start painting. Do you still feel that painful moments from the past lead you to create your current works? [1] Barbara Howey: The death of my mother did act as a catalyst for going to art school initially. The work I did based on old...
Read MoreInsight into the Personal.
Curator Karen Robson interviewed by Natalie Dekel. Natalie Dekel: How can one curate an exhibition on something so intangible, such as memories? [1] Karen Robson: We started originally with the idea of just doing diaries – and it expanded as we explored the material across the whole range of our collections. [2] When people think of diaries, they immediately think of personal ...
Read MorePortals of the Mind and the Soul.
Painter, poet and philosopher Paul Hartal is interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: What is your view on the sources of creativity in art? [1] Paul Hartal: Creativity is a cognitive process that results in new outcomes. It generates original ideas and novel products. Since creative faculties are not distributed evenly at birth, we come to the world with significant differences in levels of...
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