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WHEN A WISH TAKES FORM
Every new year begins with a wish. Some are deeply personal, while others are shared by many of us. We wish for peace, home, love, healing, courage, joy, renewal, or simply for something to change.
This was the idea behind WISHES, our Open Call for Rosh Hashanah: to ask artists and creators what a wish might look like once it takes physical form. Through objects, artworks and different creative practices, we invited them to give shape to something usually invisible: a hope, an intention, a memory or a feeling carried into the year ahead.
Together with art curator Ela Cohen and ECLECTICTLV, we received many thoughtful and beautiful submissions. We originally planned to select 12 finalists. In the end, there was one more work we simply could not leave out, so this year’s WISHES collection brings together 13 selected finalists, including three winners.
Here are the artists behind this year’s WISHES collection, their works, and the wishes they chose to carry into the new year.
1. Anna Bestuzheva | Ceramic Pot Station
Anna Bestuzheva brings her textile background into ceramics, using clay forms as surfaces for botanical imagery. For WISHES, she presented Abundance, a pomegranate-centered series made from speckled clay, underglaze, clear glaze and liquid gold luster. The familiar Rosh Hashanah symbol becomes a contemporary object carrying a direct wish for abundance, fulfillment and generosity in the year ahead.
2. Geaya Blory & Maria Feigin | Studio Yarnatak
WINNER
Studio Yarnatak, founded in Haifa by Maria Feigin and Geaya Blory, works with fibers and tufting at the meeting point of craft and contemporary art. Their WISHES pieces were created differently from their usual research-led process: intuitively, without a fixed plan. The result carries a wish for freedom, instinct and trust in what can emerge when control is loosened.
3. Liza Fedotova | LF Ceramics
Ceramic artist and designer Liza Fedotova explores simple forms, clear lines and the balance between order and chaos. Her WISHES collection includes small pomegranate-shaped stoneware plates made with sgraffito and colored clay, alongside larger serving dishes and trays using her signature applique technique. The works bring a traditional Rosh Hashanah symbol into a clean contemporary table setting, carrying a wish for abundance and a generous beginning.
4. Merav Cohen | Moments
Botanical artist and graphic designer Merav Cohen grows and gathers local Israeli plants in her studio garden, preserving them through traditional pressing and drying. Her work Pansy 2025 is made from real pansies, slowly pressed and composed with careful attention to open space. For the new year, it carries a quiet wish for acceptance, renewal and the preservation of something fragile.
5. Sima Gil & Noam Kisch | Studio Simono
WINNER
Studio Simono brings together ceramic artist Noam Kisch and visual artist Sima Gil. Their handmade porcelain and stoneware pieces use hand-painted blue-and-white imagery inspired by ceramic traditions, art history and mythological motifs. Picking Flowers, Blue Heron and The Huntress imagine calm, beauty and almost utopian simplicity. Together, they express a wish for quieter, more peaceful days.
Studio Simono in DI Catalogue
6. Tali Zelnik | Piece of Mine
Tali Zelnik transforms original Israeli ceramic vessels from the 1950s to the 1990s into one-of-a-kind lighting objects, preserving their surfaces and traces of time. Her piece Nurit begins with a hand-painted Keramit vessel from the 1970s and gives it new life through brass, glass and light. The work carries a wish for renewal without erasure, allowing the past to remain present in a new form.
7. Alexandra Kokin
Jerusalem-based artist Alexandra Kokin works with fluid paint and earth-based materials such as clay, sand and salt. Her Gardens series explores Eden as a state of wholeness between the human being and the world. The First Garden, Lost Garden and Promised Garden move from primordial unity to loss and finally toward light. Together, they carry a wish to recover the ability to hope and to see what may not be entirely lost.
8. Natali Kavas & Yelena Beliaev
Inception brings together two textile practices: Natali Kavas explores botanical forms, transformation and vulnerability, while Yelena Beliaev works with memory, identity and cultural codes. Their joint apple branch, made from textile, felt, mixed fibers and wire, combines softness with internal strength. The apple suggests renewal and the branch continuity, forming a wish to enter a new cycle without losing connection to what came before.
9. Sharon Kipnis Chait
Sharon Kipnis Chait explores memory, roots and identity through a naïve visual language and hand-made techniques. Her series Botany of Healing and Blessing presents the pomegranate and the Four Species in acrylic and colored pencil, each paired with a blessing for the new year. Botanical imagery becomes a direct language for healing, blessing and the beginning of a new cycle.
Sharon Kipnis Chait in DI Catalogue
10. Adi Sagie
Be’er Sheva-based artist Adi Sagie works with collage and digital illustration, often beginning with her own photography. Influenced by Japanese woodblock prints and the concept of Ma, she uses negative space as an active part of the image. People on Palmahim Beach and CLOUDS 01 reduce familiar coastal scenes to essential lines and stillness. Their wish is simple and timely: to slow down, notice more and make room for quiet.
Adi Sagie in DI Catalogue
11. Talia Shannon Moses | Shine On Design
Textile designer and artist Talia Shannon Moses works across photography, digital image-making, printing, knitting, embroidery and tufting. Within the Field develops from a single photograph taken in a flowering landscape, then transformed through mirroring, repetition, scale and orientation. The series carries a wish for renewed connection with the living world, and for the patience to remember that we are part of nature’s patterns and cycles.
12. Stella Berezovsky | Weave In
Textile artist and interior designer Stella Berezovsky creates geometric, tactile compositions rooted in traditional weaving. Three works from her WEAVE series become three wishes: to live more slowly and intentionally, to move toward something better, and to leave room for uncertainty and imperfection. Together, they suggest that change does not always require adding or fixing. Sometimes it begins by making space.
Stella Berezovsky in DI Catalogue
13. Zvia Green
WINNER
Tel Aviv-based artist Zvia Green explores cultural inheritance through domestic objects, rituals and everyday gestures. Don’t Put the Fancy Dishes in the Dishwasher revisits plates collected by her parents, Concealed Heritage translates family imagery into Jacquard weaving, and New Generation Lamps transforms vessels from her grandmother’s home into light. Across all three works, the wish is for continuity, belonging and renewal: carrying inherited stories forward without freezing them in time.
Seen together, these works make it clear that a wish does not have one shape. It can be woven from cotton or built from clay. It can begin with a family plate, a pressed flower, a photograph of the sea, an apple branch, a lamp from another generation, or a garden that may exist only in our imagination.
Some wishes look toward the future. Others begin by protecting something from the past. There are wishes for peace and abundance, but also for slowness, acceptance, continuity, belonging and the courage to hope.
Perhaps that was the most meaningful part of WISHES: asking artists to make visible something we all carry, but rarely see.
What would your wish take the shape of?
DISCOVER THE WISHES COLLECTION
Until the end of the autumn holidays, works by the participating artists are available with a 12% discount using the code Eclectic Wishes. The discount applies when purchasing directly from the artists, through their studios, websites or personal sales channels.
