'Zen' Collection

In 2006, I flew to Japan for the first time. I am attaching what I wrote after the trip.

It's hard to believe that two decades have passed since then and the inspiration still exists for new models and the expansion of this collection.

Earth, wind, fire and water

The four elements symbolize the following for me:

Earth - the clay, the ore (such as gold and stones, pebbles and bamboo)

Spirit - imagination and design, airiness and movement.

Fire - creation, action, and art, like the fiery trend that cooled to basalt.

Water - emotion, heart, blood in the veins, flow.

The trip to Japan once again flooded me with the observation of the connection between man - nature - environment. The worship, the traditional architecture, the amazing Zen gardens and on the other hand all the high-tech innovation. Home design by me, my endless love for practical creation with my hands, the establishment of the Japanese garden in the yard of the house, a study of the writings of philosophers from classical Greece: Plato, Hippocrates and Aristotle on the four elements, combined with astrology, the theory of Feng Shui and S.Y. Agnon's book "As Yesterday, the Day Before Yesterday" - all of these resulted in the

A balance between the elements is essential for the soul and harmony. I translated the natural sights of pebbles, bamboo, the fire in basalt, the wind and water into textures and shapes in gold. Each piece of jewelry contains the elements into a harmony of color, shape and texture. Each texture was made from extensive experience and many technologies of working with gold, wax carving, hammering, sawing, soldering, melting, engraving, stamping, casting, knitting and finishing – all out of love for art and craftsmanship.

As in Shai Agnon's book:

"And not only that, there is a sea there, which one immerses in as one immerses in a mikvah, which transfers the power of the impurity that is on one's body. And the sea has a higher elevation than the mikvah, so that a person emerges from the mikvah and is sick from the smell, while the sea emits a good smell. And whoever does not have the strength to go down to the sea takes sand baths. How, he digs a kind of grave for himself and sits up to his navel in sand and is healed, because man was created from four elements, fire, wind, water, earth, and the sand of the sea includes four elements, fire, wind, water, and earth. Fire is the heat that heats the sand. Wind, which melts the sand. Water, because the sand comes from the sea. Earth, because the sand is also a type of earth. These four elements come and bring healing to a person who was created from four elements." (Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Tamul Shelshom, Book Four, p. 374, Schoken Publishing, Tel Aviv, 1998).

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