Seeing with wisdom: an imagined interview with William Blake

Seeing with wisdom: an imagined interview with William Blake

Journal of Creativity and Inspiration INTERVIEW Seeing with wisdom: an imagined interview with William Blake ChatGPT (overseen and edited by Gil Dekel) [Authors’ info] 10 December 2024 – Vol 2, Issue 4. This text, presented as an interview, is based on...
Vision and reality: William Blake’s mythic system

Vision and reality: William Blake’s mythic system

Journal of Creativity and Inspiration RESEARCH Vision and reality: William Blake’s mythic system Susanne Sklar [Authors’ info] 5 July 2024 – Vol 2, Issue 3. William Blake’s mythic system is designed to change the way we think and see, to lead us into a...
The hidden realms within: Gary Lachman interviewed by Gil Dekel

The hidden realms within: Gary Lachman interviewed by Gil Dekel

Journal of Creativity and Inspiration INTERVIEW The hidden realms within: Gary Lachman interviewed by Gil Dekel Gary Lachman and Gil Dekel [Authors info] 14 February 2024 – Vol 2, Issue 2. Gil Dekel: What are ‘esoteric traditions’? Gary Lachman: Each of the...
Vision and Ekphrasis

Vision and Ekphrasis

Journal of Creativity and Inspiration RESEARCH Vision and Ekphrasis Mary Attwood [Author info] 14 February 2024 – Vol 2, Issue 2. How we attend to and respond to works of art transforms not only what we see in the image before us, but what we might glimpse...
3. Table of Content

3. Table of Content

Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel.   3. Table of Content 1. Thesis Title Page 2. Dedication 3. Table of Content 4. Lists (icons, diagrams, graphs, figures) 5. Abstract 6. Introduction 7....

2. Dedication

Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel.   2. Dedication To the one who is walking beside me for thousands of years now, my wife, and the one who reminds me why we are here, my child. I am...
Reading energy – how to understand and work with energy

Reading energy – how to understand and work with energy

By Natalie Dekel, Reiki Master/teacher. The more you work with energy, the more you feel what comes your way. You can sense the type of energy that people and objects project, whether it is good energy or less beneficial energy. I call this observation of energy from...
Working with Encaustic wax paintings: I See What I Believe.

Working with Encaustic wax paintings: I See What I Believe.

By Natalie Dekel. The following paintings were created using coloured-wax applied with heated iron onto glossy cards. This technique is called encaustic wax. The technique involves the application of coloured wax onto a heated iron, which causes the wax to melt. When...
How Do I Close My Eyes To See?

How Do I Close My Eyes To See?

By Natalie Dekel. There are so many things in life we need to achieve and so many thoughts we ought to think, that we do not have time to stop and observe what is happening inside us. It takes courage, I found, to look within. It takes practice to look into the dark...
On Every Beach the Sand is Different.

On Every Beach the Sand is Different.

Portraits and Encaustic Wax painter, Natalie Dekel, interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: When did you start painting? Natalie Dekel: I was left-handed and my mother was worried that I will not be able to use my right hand. Where I was born and grew up, everyone had to...
Rising to the Surface of Language.

Rising to the Surface of Language.

Poet Anne Stevenson interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: Can we talk about your creative process of writing? [1] Anne Stevenson: For me, writing poems is not so much a process as a way of feeling my way in the dark. Lines come to mind; I work them over in my head and...