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“…Architecture is frozen music, but sculpture is dancing architecture or singing architecture.

There is a famous poem in Hebrew, which goes: ”There are people with the heart of stone, and there are stones with a human heart”. In Yael’s art one can see stones with a human heart. Even more so – you can see stones with a twinkle in their eye. It is very difficult to make a stone speak such a delicate, indicative language. Yael succeeds.

The greatness about her is that like a good chef who starts every gourmet dish with the right selection of the raw material, so does she - already sees her finished sculpture in the raw marble.

Yael does not submit to norms and conventions. She makes the iron, stone or marble speak her language, which tells us of humanity, youth, couples, old-age, dialogue and disappointment. Her art is actually a full dictionary based on her own personal letters.

Yael knows that less is more. She is very careful not to overdo, not to overstate, not to make a single movement or contribution, which is unnecessary for her message. A message must be clear as well as economic, strong but not powerful.

When looking at this forest of sculptures, they do not resemble anything else. Yael’s art is totally original and can not be compared to any other art or sculpture.

I also believe that she can command size. She does in miniature the maximum and the maximum with miniatures. I think that the great thing about her sculptures is that they do not look frozen. They look rather mobile, dancing, and from every angle they have a different movement.

Yael is such a small lady and such a powerful personality. That disproportion between her size and her powers. One would never suspect that such a small body can command that sort of dimensions and proportions.”

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15 juli 2007 - Shimon Peres became President of Israël.

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