2022
Tel Arad, Israel

Ongoing ritual film and photographic series

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"Havayah Shlema" is a ritual film and ongoing artwork, created during the Spring Equinox at the ancient temple site of Tel Arad, a place once alive with prayer, later buried and forgotten. In this sacred desert landscape, I gathered with a circle of pregnant women, while carrying my pregnancy, my daughter, Havayah, in my womb. Together, we held a ceremony to activate a prayer for world peace.

My spiritual name, Shlema, “wholeness” in Hebrew, came to me after a long inner journey of reclaiming my body as sacred. This work is part of that ongoing journey. Through movement, presence, and voice, we opened a portal of remembrance, a space where life, body, and spirit could align.

Alongside the ritual, I created a series of photographs capturing the women’s presence, their vulnerability, openness, and the quiet, divine force of life moving through them. The images also hold the spirit of the land - ancient, raw, and timeless. Together, they form an intimate archive of a moment suspended between worlds.

The film remains intentionally incomplete. Its full form will only reveal itself when the vision it holds - the prayer for a peaceful world - becomes a living reality.

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In collaboration with:

Bar Rahamim Ben Or, Alejandra Okret, Sharry Gal, Margalit Frydman, Eilat Sofer, Gilat Gerbi, Tehila Levi, Ruth Rafael

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