"What is a City? - above all else a theater of social action.” (Lewis Mumford) 

  "As the city developed, the democratic habits of the village would be often carried into its heretofore specialized activities, with a constant rotation of human functions and civic duties, and with a full participation by each citizen in every aspect of the common life. This…opened up virgin territories of mind and spirit… The result was not merely a torrential outpouring of ideas and images in drama, poetry, sculpture, painting, logic, mathematics, and philosophy; but a collective life more highly energized, more heightened in its capacity for esthetic expression and rational evaluation… It is art, culture, and political purpose, not numbers, that define a city"

  (Lewis Mumford, The City in History, p. 124f) 

 You are invited to bring ideas and art, merchandise and opinions, personal links and links of interest, comments, images and announcements - in short, the paraphernalia of mind and (virtual) matter that we might find strange, interesting and amusing - please be free to contact  townsquare@eshalit.com.

 Susan Bostrom-Wong, Jungian analyst and painter

Philemon - a dreamed reality

Hagit Shahal, painter

Sonia Shalit, ceramist

Eliaz Slonim, painter 

Philemon - a dreamed reality

Philemon was a figure that appeared to Jung in a dream in 1913. He has lent his name to the Philemon foundation, which has made Jung's Red Book available.

Eliaz Slonim, painter

you find more of Eliaz's paintings at the wonderland of the artist

Sonia Shalit, Ceramist

The Ra'anana Municipality has acquired four pieces by Sonia Shalit for a permanent exhibition of her works in the Ra'anana City Hall. This is one of the pieces, spring 2010:

 The sculpture Manima by Sonia Shalit appears on the cover of Requiem: A Tale of Exile and Return, and in the Jung Journal: Psyche and Culture, February 2010

 Susan Bostrom-Wong, Jungian analyst and painter

 Take a tour of Susan Bostrom-Wong's exceptional paintings, where you find, among many exceptional works of hers, the painting Susan provided for the cover of the book Enemy, Cripple & Beggar:

If you look closely, you find layers of images embedded in the human figure of this fine painting. As with the human shadow, perhaps Emerging represents our need to look within to find the vital symbols and hidden aspects of our evolving selves.

  Hagit Shahal

 Hagit Shahal's exhibition Dowry: Inspired opened at the Stern Gallery in Tel Aviv, May 13, 2010

 See more of Hagit's portraits and paintings