Beautiful work by Meirav Shaul.

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Yesterday evening was the opening of “Galer-Yam” (a word play on Gallery and Sea), a pop-up experimental illustration gallery on the beach in Tel-Aviv.

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The project is the brain-child of Dafi Hagai, a design student from HIT. She contacted me a few months ago, asking me if I’d like to participate in her project. I said YES, because I really appreciate people like Dafi, who actually do stuff (as opposed to just thinking about it).

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The other artists who said YES to Dafi are really a few of the best: Gilad Seliktar, David Polonsky, Moran Barak, Michal Bonano, Merav Salomon, Meirav Shaul, Noa Vichansky, Einat Peled and last but not least Shimrit Elkanati.

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From left to right: Gilad Seliktar, Michal Bonano, Shimrit Elkanati, David Polonsky.

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As you can see, it was very dark on the beach and I couldn’t take good pictures of almost anything. My work was also very lost in the dark, so here is the original drawing:

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Dafi silk printed the works she collected on big glass plates and then set them into rusty metal frames. In the sunshine the drawings are cast as shadows on the sand and a new dimension is added to the artwork. It’s kind of hard to explain :)

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It’s going to be up until December 16, so hurry up and go take a look if you can.