Final Project

My name is Liat Harel , and I am 24 years old.
In these very days I'm finishing 4 years of studies at Bezalel Academy of Art and Designing, in Jerusalem. From this moment on, everything is open and my life is about to launch…
I was born and brought up in Jerusalem - a holly city but difficult, soaked with beauty and magic, but also with constant daily conflicts. I'm grateful for my life in Jerusalem, but I also know that at this stage I already look forward to something else… though, I'm not yet sure what …However, I feel that for now I have exhausted what the city has to offer me.
I love everything about art and designing, and am greatly interested in fashion and fashion-designing. Also, my great passion all along my life is my love of dancing.

I often visit various exhibitions (as can be seen in the photo documenting my visit to Lacroix's Exhibition in Tel Aviv). I also go frequently to see dance and theatre shows. Good movies drive me to deep thinking and give me inspiration, and so do books and music. When I have the time, I like to go dancing, but if I don't – then, I can settle for a good workout in the Gym or an intensive aerobic class. In the past, I used to dance professionally with several companies and I am trained as an aerobic-dance instructor.
For me, the sea is the most magical place, but being a Jerusalemite, I need to plan my visits to the coast. The most beautiful beaches, in my eyes, are of Haifa – they are clean and pleasant and also arranged with lanes for walking.

My Daily Routine
During the last 4 years my routine was structured to fit my heavy schedule of studies (but as pointed, this is about to change very soon…).
I wake up around 7.30am but do not get out of bed until about 8.00 o'clock. I need this extra half hour, which I call "time of mercy", in order to take another deep relaxing breath before charging on to another overloaded day. I drink my coffee still in bed, or at summertime – in my back lawn, while I listen to the birds singing.
Then I shower and get ready to leave for school.
While I drive, I usually pass through my mind all the things on my schedule for that day, trying to plan various time-tables according to given dead-lines.
I finish my classes around 5.00pm, and go to the Gym near the Academy, to work out. During the workout I think about new ideas and concepts (for my work).
When I go to the Gym on pleasant weekends, I usually bring with me materials to work on, and after working out I spread myself on the green lawn by the swimming-pool, put music on and work.
When I come home after school, I have a light snack (lunch I usually eat at school), then sit at my computer and start to carry out my ideas. If I'm not overloaded with too much work, I like in the evening to meet and hang up with my friends - go out together for a drink or to see a show. When I am overloaded with assignments, I recruit my self discipline and work through until 2.00am or until the project is ready (if I have a dead-line to meet...).

I love nature and am privileged to live in an area which, though within the city, is countryside like - full of greenery as well as history. So, I can always choose between the quiet of the countryside and the big city noises, between history and modernity…

I love the goodness in mankind and insist on finding it even where it is deeply covered; I believe that truth and sincerity exist in all the walks of Life. I enjoy the coincidences and surprises in life.

Creativity, for me, is that inner nudge in the pit of my stomach, that never leaves me alone or goes away, but without which life has no meaning or point. Creativity is the urge to grow and develop, to change things and make a difference. Even a small difference – is still a difference. Part of the fulfillment of creativity is the realization and acceptance of the fact that the creation, like a child, once born into the world, assumes life of its own, and the artist, like a good parent, needs to let it go!