Today is a celebration of Lag baOmer, a Jewish holiday when in the evening kids (and not only) light bonfires everywhere. Just next to my house they lit it so good, that it put on fire the whole waste ground! 8-0

I was really impressed by urban laundry of Shanghai:



more laundry

Here is the opening of my exhibition in Shanghai, in beautiful gallery 1918, the Villa.



more photos inside

I lost an article in Juxtapoz, that’s a pity :(


some articles in big size

My student work.


6 big illustrations

I’ve added some of my new works to my website

Recently I was shooting graffiti in South Tel Aviv as a reference for a packaging project, and found some interesting ones. Not a lot, actually… but why? Is it too hot and humid in Tel Aviv to draw outside? :) And also I was thinking about streetart, that it is an underground against the mass-culture graphics, and when I use it for packaging I’m neutralizing it, by returning to the mass-culture circle :(



some more graffiti

Really cool Amsterdam based illustrator Fiodor Sumkin (originally Russian :). Like a DJ of graphic elements, mixing a lot of typography, mixing crafting pen, inc, watercolors.

Отличные работы, Федор!
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Yesterday I had a lesson, the subject was preferences, «I like», «I don’t like», «I’m good in» etc.
So I asked Yukiko, how to say «I love you» in Japanese. I asked it before, but didn’t remember what she said, and that’s why:
 — We don’t say «I love you», — she said, — we use only «I like you». «I love you» is old-fashion. Nobody uses it, except of old people. Or soap-operas on TV. It’s an exaggeration.

I was puzzled.

 — But if you want to tell somebody that you love him, what do you say?
 — «I like you». Or «I like you a lot».
 — Using the same verb as you say «I like this book»?
 — Yes.
 — Hm, but, Yukiko… How do you distinguish in Japanese someone you only like and someone you really love?
 — You can tell him: «I want to take care of you, please, come to live with me».
 — Hehe! And what happened to all the vocabulary for relationship between «I like you» and «Come to live with me»? And if you don’t have a place to live together? How you express love?
 — Lena, — said Yukiko, — in Japan we don’t talk about love, because it’s something expressed with actions. The other side has to feel it from you. If he needs words from you, you’re doing something wrong.

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wow.

New work for my exhibition «Keepers of Little Secrets»:

Last Purim, a happy holiday in Israel when everybody dresses up with costumes, my daughter was a Little Red Hood (I think she has started a new fashion in Tel Aviv, most of the girls were dressed as queen Esther or Fairy, or Princess):



and I was hm… I don’t know, a Queen of Ugly Monkeys, perhaps :)

…you know, instead of «not being tired» you could have chosen something much better. Like for example, «not being unhappy».

My dad came to visit from Ukraine, I haven’t seen him about 15 years…

2008 (with me):


1975 (with my mum):