2016 Year in Review
Wow. Where do I start? 2-0-1-6 you were a year for the records.
I lived in Haifa half the year, then Tel Aviv for the other half. I dug deep into my emotional health in ways I have never done before and really came to own art therapy as my calling. 2016 health wise, was not the best. Let's just say my health went majorly down hill towards the end of the year: we're talking 90 degree, San Francisco downhill. Yet amidst all the suffering, pain, grievances I find myself experiencing J-O-Y in a way I have never known and sympathizing/empathizing in a way I could not have done before. Thankful 2016 is over, yet looking back, I can say I am overall humbled and grateful. I ate some really good food in 2016 (and continue to do so), met some really rad people, had thee best roommates, and I grew quite a bit.
Dorm room at University of Haifa
Dorm life
Haifa Roomies--Love these guys
Art Therapy
Art Projects with Michaela
More art projects with Michaeala
Tel Aviv with Amanda
Hadar on a Friday--local super market in Haifa I would go to every week
Went to Haifa beach a ton in 2016
Haifa sunset
yoga and runs at the beach too
Good food, good conversations
In March a friend and I worked on a project together
Paint layers
Camera obscura
In April some friends and I rented a car and drove all around Israel. The diverse landscape here blows my mind.
Masada
En Gedi, Solomon's Columns
Dead Sea
Road Trip!
Galilee
Sea of Galilee
Banias Falls
Masada
Passover 2016, all wheat products are covered at the stores in plastic.
In July I went home for a wee bit
While home I had the opportunity to be a photo assistant for a handbag website
I got to see Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror Room. Wow!
Spend time with friends
And family
I had a long layover in Madrid on the way back to Israel and decided to go explore.
Madrid layover
Guess where Dora is?
Day Trip to Akko
A few months after I was back in Israel I moved to Tel Aviv
New Apartment
Yom Kippur
In October, a good friend, Layla, came to visit from Japan.
Layla
Jerusalem
Jerusalem
Jerusalem
Jerusalem
I got to hold a puppy on the train, on my birthday!
November was the start of my health decline
ER visit
Scars series. Self portrait.