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Carefree oasis, tent not-to roam,
{the habitation in the garden} its stakes for ever-and-ever and its cords not-to be-cut-off Biblical Prophesy Isaiah 33,20 |
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V I S I O N
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THE "PYRAMIDION"
hebrew "OHALAH",
arabic "RIHLAH"
or THE FUTURE
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The Invention of the Pyramidal Tent 1992
(3) The R&D of the Pyramidal Tent 1993-2001 (4) Tent Compositions: the Ohel-Mo'ed 1992-1996 (5) Tent Compositions: 'King David's Harem' 1995 (6) The Pyramidion/Rihlah in Sinai 1996 (7) The Four Nation Tent in Eilat and the Vision of a floating Pyramidion 1997-98 (8) My own living in a pyramidal tent 1998-2001
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2003_02_11; last update: 2003_03_11
not
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"O mankind! lo!
Towards the end of the time I was permitted
to live and create in the Desert, Tamir and I had discovered a place in Israel
above the Wadi Rakhaf, 3 km south of Massada, When I got the ultimatum to leave the fieldschool
of Ein-Gedi with bus and minibus, |
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Tamir's tent - during our time in Metzuqe-Dragot, north of Ein-Gedi, in Palestinian
land
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Tamir, the artist: the fence of palmfronds above the SaltSea and the two of us in our shortlived cathedral , a composition of bus, minibus and tent.
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Tamir on his own for the first time: Festival "Bereshit", Sept.
1999, in a field.
He erects two of the tents and invites people for learning about both - Desert
Economy and Training Emotions.
What follows in Hebrew, is a budget.
Tamir and his partners wanted to call the first twin mobilel hosting business:
"Ohalah Or-va-Tzel", the Light-and-Shade Pyramidion.
They asked me to outline a budget for investment, marketing and ongoing expenses
(I don't know the term in English).
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Tamir's first station after he had to leave Ein-Gedi: Ne'ot Ha-Kikar, south
end of the Dead Sea
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When the job there,
But this idyll soon found
an end too, he saw no choice, but moving into a deserted orange orchard and pay rent every month. |
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This is Tamir's chaos ,
This is the second winter
and it's hard to live like that in the rain, But Tamir is growing despite much misery. |
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Update : 2004_05_05:
In June 2003 Tamir couldn't stand the prison of the orchard any longer.
He moved the bus - not the minibus - back to the cliffs.
A month later - while he was visiting his father in hospital in his home-town
Dimona -
the bus was tugged away by an unknown authority - and imprisoned in a compost
plant in Kiryat-Bialik near Haifa.
It took him 5 days to find out about that and to get a ranger to let him visit
his home.
It was badly looted, the mobile parts of the solar system, the gas bottle,
his musical instruments etc. were gone
and the bus a total chaos.
The authority refused to take responsibility, and instead charged a fine of
3000 NIS to liberate the bus.
Since Tamir did not and does not have 3000 NIS,
he understood, that the bus has to stay put for the time being,
and that he was guided to undergo an experience which he had shunned until
then:
to live in the big city, Tel-Aviv, in a flat - like "normal" people
- and to make the money to pay for it,
and at the same time to work on fulfilling his dream of becoming a singer.
But he is never far away from the Israel/Ismael Desert Dream.
After our unintended visit on May 3, in Ali's "Shick" near Arad
(once a Bedouin tent, now a shack, for receiving visitors)
he said:
"I was again touched to tears, seeing what we,
Israel, have done to them
and go on doing to them."