Portals 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...
Read MoreOn Every Beach the Sand is Different.
Portraits painter, Natalie Dekel, interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: When did you start painting? [1] Natalie Dekel: I was left-handed and my mother was worried that I will not be able to use my right hand. Where I was born and grew up, everyone had to be the same and had to write in school using their right hand only… So at the age of one my mother gave me a lot of pencils and told...
Read MoreTurning On the Light Without Choosing Which Way It Will Spread.
The authorial-Self, a ‘Muse’ of poetry, is interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: I am very happy to be able to interview my own ‘Muse’, my own creative self, and ask him about processes of inspiration in writing poetry. [1] I would like to thank you, the authorial-Self, for ‘descending’ from the so-called ‘collective unconsciousness, the spirit world’, and coming over here,...
Read MoreBecoming Something Deeper.
Poet Myra Schneider interviewed by Gil Dekel. Myra Schneider: Hi, Gil, welcome… would you like some tea? [1] Gil Dekel: That would be nice. [2] [getting tea] [3] Gil Dekel: Did you always live in London? [4] Myra Schneider: I have been living here a long time now, since 1955, in this house. This room was my son’s bedroom, and it is now my poetry workshop room. [5] Your wonderful book...
Read MoreWhirlpool of Emotions.
Poet Clive Wilmer interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: Hello, Clive… [1] Clive Wilmer: Nice to meet you, Gil, at last… [2] I wasn’t sure if this is Cambridge Central Station, because it looks so ‘open’; quite wide… [3] Yes, it’s an unusual lay-out here. This part of England is very flat, like Holland… [4] In The Mystery of Things, your recent book, there are...
Read MoreInsight into Words.
Poet Maggie Sawkins interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: You have been writing since the age of nine. How does the process of writing poetry work for you? [1] Maggie Sawkins: I think that there are different processes for different poems. Sometimes it is two things that seem opposites, and you make a connection. That is, a tension between two things that a poem can grow out of. For example,...
Read MoreThe Arc of Grace.
Poet Sylvia Paskin interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: How do words come to you? [1] Sylvia Paskin: Often they come as a burst of emotion. Sometimes I hear or read something, or something happens to me. And around this set of feelings you find yourself writing about it. That’s how the poem begins to form. I usually write long-hand, I don’t write directly to the computer. I make notes....
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