Journal of Creativity and Inspiration INTERVIEW The hidden realms within: Gary Lachman interviewed by Gil Dekel Gary Lachman and Gil Dekel [Authors info] 14 February 2024 – Vol 2, Issue 2. Gil Dekel: What are ‘esoteric traditions’? Gary Lachman: Each of the...
Journal of Creativity and Inspiration RESEARCH Vision and Ekphrasis Mary Attwood [Author info] 14 February 2024 – Vol 2, Issue 2. How we attend to and respond to works of art transforms not only what we see in the image before us, but what we might glimpse...
Journal of Creativity and Inspiration RESEARCH Increasing creativity and accessing inner knowledge: the ‘Draw Your Breath’ method Gil Dekel, PhD [Author info] 14 February 2024 – Vol 2, Issue 2. People often find it hard to be creative and to come up with...
Journal of Creativity and Inspiration PERSPECTIVE Translating silent whispers into colours and shapes: encaustic wax art Natalie Dekel [Author info] 6 September 2023 – Vol 1, Issue 1. One of the mediums I use to create art is encaustic wax. The process involves...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 2. Dedication To the one who is walking beside me for thousands of years now, my wife, and the one who reminds me why we are here, my child. I am...
By Natalie Dekel, Reiki Master/teacher. The more you work with energy, the more you feel what comes your way. You can sense the type of energy that people and objects project, whether it is good energy or less beneficial energy. I call this observation of energy from...
by Gil Dekel, PhD. This book offers an important insight into the power of imagination by clearing a prevailing mistake about the English Romantics poets. The author shows that the poets were not indulged in imaginary states ‘removed’ from this world, rather they saw...
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...
By Natalie Dekel. There are so many things in life we need to achieve and so many thoughts we ought to think, that we do not have time to stop and observe what is happening inside us. It takes courage, I found, to look within. It takes practice to look into the dark...
Portraits and Encaustic Wax painter, Natalie Dekel, interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: When did you start painting? 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...
Poet Anne Stevenson interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: Can we talk about your creative process of writing? [1] Anne Stevenson: For me, writing poems is not so much a process as a way of feeling my way in the dark. Lines come to mind; I work them over in my head and...
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