Our Artist

Dafna Mordecai

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"Malgarath" by Dafna Mordecai

Dafna Mordecai's life and work span several continents, many cultures, and multiple forms and dimensions. Born in India, Dafna lived in Asia, Europe and the Middle East before the age of 10, when she immigrated to America and settled in New York City. In this creative mecca, Dafna found home for her developing expression, including an immense reservoir of energies resonant with her cosmic imagination and conceptual space vast enough to embrace all its various and voluminous forms.

After attending the High School of Art and Design, Dafna entered Parsons School of Design where she met artist and teacher David Passalaqua, who became her mentor and the greatest influence in her academic and professional life. Following graduation, she continued to study with him at his studios in New York and Orlando. Receiving training in the old masters and learning rigorous discipline, which included acquiring the ability to draw and paint with either hand and in all genres and schools.Mr. Passalaqua’s unique and eclectic approach to art enabled Dafna to not only become technically adept as illustrator, draftswoman, painter, and sculptor but also free her prolific talent and imagination.

Surrealist in nature from the very beginning, Dafna’s work has evolved into an expressionistic style bordering on the abstract and futurism . While the subject matter is rooted in familiar human themes, at the same time each piece of art is an invitation to the viewer to enter other yet unknown realms, worlds of multidimensionality and all possibilities, where Dafna resides in her own consciousness and future worlds, as Dafna intuits them.

Once the viewer takes the perpetual leap into these works and these worlds, the compositions become spontaneously apparent, drawing the viewer more deeply into an exploration of mood, feeling, concept and consciousness. Suddenly the viewer recognizes that this surrealistic universe is somehow familiar. This recognition is a joy of Dafna’s work and the adventure for the viewer is endlessly delightful.

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PRINTS ARE AVAILABLE BY CONTACTING THE ARTIST AT:

Email Art@DafnaMordecai.com; www.DafnaMordecai.com (coming soon)

Terms of Use

Contact the Artist regarding the THUMBNAILS below or other work. For more of Dafna’s diverse art and inquiries visit her web site: www.DafnaMordecai.com (coming soon). Contact her at Art@DafnaMordecai.com. Art at this site is copyrighted © by Dafna Mordecai 2010; all rights are reserved. For commercial or not-for-profit use query the Artist. Reproductions of any kind are prohibited other than for personal and spiritual enjoyment.

For more comments by Dafna about her work, see below the Thumbnails

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Snow Silo Ice Gate

Maha Mandalla Forest Portal

The Maha Tree of Life

Lightning Scape Super Nova

Fire Tree Mandalla Crystal Diamond

New Odessa Crystal Cave Mandalla

Crystal Cave Panoramic Snow Temple

Ascending Light Crater Terrain

Cotton Mandalla 1 Cotton Mandalla 2

Andean Vision Agartha

Pillar of Fire Rainbow Fire Cloud

Grassland Mandalla III Glass Ball Mandalla

Waterfall Scape Grassland Mandalla 1a

Forest Sanctuary Russet (large)

Snow Pagoda Fire Lake Mandalla

Space Mandalla 2b Space Mandalla 2a

Wave Garden I Wave Garden III

Crystal Dome Soul Excavations

Garden Path

Narnia

Shale Pool II Shale Pool III

Alignment Star Temple

Island Temple Apolinaire

Submerged Violet Golden Eye

Trinity Sanctuary

Ram Mandalla Violet Ram Mandalla II

The Reef Follicle Mandalla I

Yellow Tulip Mandalla Fucia Flame

Snow Temple Sanctuary Shale Pool III

Aqua Cloud Mandalla Orange Cloud Mandalla

Cotton Mandalla 3 Cotton Mandalla 4

Temple Vision Violet Eye Cloud

Turtle Doves Grassland Mandalla I

Water Space Ship Purple Star Sunset

Lotus Bloom

Forest Sanctuary Magenta (large)

Blue Crystal Mandalla Gold Crystal Mandalla

Fire Flower Raspberry Waterfall

Shale Hut Purple Mecca

Wave Garden B Yamashu 1

Pool of Colors Golden Waterfalls

Hidden Waterfall Under Water Lotus

"The more I am connected to the truth and the love within me, the more these qualities are apparent in the outer expressions of my art and my life, and the more I experience my body as an instrument of the Divine. The greatest art happens when I step out of the way, surrender and let the Divine move my hand on the page. When Divine Love is the guiding force, beauty emerges. May I always express the infinite beauty of Divine love through this bodily instrument."

Dafna's Art is a journey into other realms to remind us about our multidimensional nature. It is the vastness of our being that is operating in many dimensions simultaneously, absent any linear movement of past, present, or future, as all things happen at once. It is a glimpse, a reminder, of who we really are, without limitation and with all possibilities at hand. It is the feeling of a child exploring the world with wonder and awe, as each thing is known for the very first time. A surrealist by nature, Dafna works in many schools of thought and many different mediums. The pieces depicted at The InterSpiritual Multiplex are from her more recent and experimental series, created in Photoshop using a technique of digital mat painting.

Dafna Mordecai's art is inextricably connected to her own spiritual journey. Her driving passion is transformation-- personal as well as planetary-- the act of stepping into one's freedom. She expresses this passion not only through her art but also through her professional work with her spiritual teacher, Ronit Singer, at the Oneness Center in New York City.

InterSpiritual Dialogue 'n Action (ISDnA, est. 2002) & Broadband Contemplative Alliances Network (bcan.ws, est. 2004) with Brother Wayne. Multiplex Maingate is www.isdna.org; Multiplex Visitors Center is www.multiplex.isdna.org. All rights reserved for original materials first published here; thanks to many associates for linked and associated materials. ISDnA's educational partner is One Spirit Interfaith (www.onespiritinterfaith.org), ISDnA is a founding member of The Order of Universal Interfaith (OUnI www.ouni.org), World Council of Interfaith Congregations (WCIC, www.ouni.org), The Coalition for OneVoice (www.coalitionforonevoice.org) and the Universal Order of Sannyasa (originally envisioned by Bro. Wayne, www.orderofsannyasa.org). Administrator Contact kurtjohnsonisd@yahoo.com