“3 months ago I was the size of Homer Simpson. When I realized that it was becoming harder and harder to even tie my shoelaces I decided that I had to take drastic steps to lose weight. I lost 30kg’s in 2 months by not eating as much as I used to, and believe me when I say it’s really hard to say NO to a Kanfeh. I really hope I don’t go back to being Homer Simpson!”
“A baby that breast feeds and cuddles on his mother is a manifestation of compassion and tenderness which we loose when we become adults. Unfortunately, in the Middle East, compassion is a rare feeling. Because of our survival mechanism, we become rough which is the opposite of what we felt when we where cuddling on our mom’s breast. In the play Lysistrata, women succeed in bringing about peace by withholding sexual privileges to their husbands – hopefully, if all the women in the Middle East withhold access of their breast, it will bring us an enduring peace as well.”
“Living in Finland was very cozy. In a way, it was living in an ‘automatic pilot’ mode. Everything is so organized and you feel like you are a part of big matrix. For me, living in such a matrix was a little bit like having a ‘mental axe’ that was hovering over my head. That was one of the reasons I moved to Tel Aviv. Here there is a different matrix: it’s less organized and coherent then Finland, but you have a feeling it’s an organized chaos – in a good way. if I need to live in a matrix, I prefer it to be the Tel Avivian one.”
Meet Dorit. “It’s been a while since I’ve put my costume on and preformed on the street. I don’t think that people really understand how much effort it takes to be a street statue. In a couple of months you’ll see me performing on the streets of London. I hope to bring a lot of light and color with me to spread around.”
“When people think about Africans they usually have the notion that we are all like the Graffiti figures behind us: Spear in one hand and a Bone stuck to our head. We hope that one day people will see us the way we really are, and not in a preconceived way.”
