Shai Zakai

Shai Zakai
Eco Artist
Born in 1957
Lives in Tel Aviv
Photographer and Sculptress

I found Shai Zakai on Absolutearts.com, an Artists website. Because I had visited Israel in 1992 , the name and
subject interested me ...I found her photography to be very stimulating and present...and because I used to
work in environmental science in New York it particularly was of interest to read on about her work with
cleaning up Concrete Creek...of her expeditions with groups of people in friendly projects, mainly concerning
cleaning up the environment. The usual concept of Israeli land and turf is dry and dessert...but her photographs
show up as deep rich green forested land. The Creek is full of the industries waste from the factories, Concrete.
It prevents the water from flowing and the water contains its pollutants.
her workshops walk among the debris and the long walks end with a supper served on leaves...part of Eco Art.
She has created the creek in fabric...great puffs of cotton are the rocks surrounding a silk river or creek.
She transformed the concrete foundin the creek into concrete flags .
The eco art re arranges how to see the issue of our waste. The talks and walks address the conflict in not
just their land but in the many lands that Shai Zakai has worked with..Korea, India...
Somehow, talking in the forest in a group of many different backgrounds, Arabs with Jews, Palestinians with
Israelis...somehow it might end in a peace ...not just a supper on leaves.

Portrait of Shai Zakai is under Google, her name, CD. Her website includes the many projects and credits .