Everything is connected הכול קשור

October 7th, day of the inconceivable

Oct 14, 2023, 3:19 PM

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The morning of Shabbat October 7th, will forever be a deep scar, carved into our collective consciousness. There are no words that come even close to describing the emotional turmoil and absolutely gut-wrenching events that keep so violently unfolding since then. The shock, the trauma, and numbness and paralysis, the hysteria, the catatonic state. We are all suspended in a black cloud of sorrow, despair, anger and still…..determination to exist, to live and to fight for the right to exist.

For lack of words, I paint………….

The children ……..

About the Author

Maiyan is a visual artist and writer. She has worked as a professional artist and writer in Israel, South Africa, Mauritius and Fiji and created several large public artworks. Numerous short stories are published online and in print. Returning to Israel in 2022, she now lives in Kiryat Tivon in the North. Her latest mission is combining paintings and writing into a collective work which tells the unusual stories and extraordinary situations they survived while maintaining their Jewish identity. As a social entrepreneur, she initiated a tech start-up and is currently building it up between painting and writing.