On the black and bloody Saturday Shani-Nicole Luke was murdered at a Nova Barai party and she is 22 years old, leaving behind a broken family, shocked friends and many works of art.
Shani was a talented tattoo artist, who was drawn to the world of painting and art from a young age, and in recent years has traveled the world a lot following music festivals for peace and love.
As a child she taught herself to sew and design her own clothes, and was engaged in painting, sculpting and writing.
In recent years she had an independent studio for artistic tattoos in her unique style.
Her sources of inspiration were sacred geometry (the study of forms that appear in nature: the spiral of the snail, the print of the snowflake, the shape of tree branches) and Japanese art.
Shani sought to spread her art through tattoos and paintings, which were influenced by Japanese tradition.
Exactly five months after the terrible massacre, an exhibition with her paintings will open this Wednesday at the Nachum Gutman Museum of Art in Tel Aviv - an initiative of her family and friends, under the name "Forever young Forever art".
The exhibition was curated by Rinat Lok Elhaik, Shani's aunt, together with Noa Halafi.
"Shani left behind a lot of notebooks with beautiful illustrations and paintings, and I thought it would be a good idea to spread her art, as well as to commemorate her, in an exhibition that will open on her birthday, on February 7, when she would have been 23," says Ricky Luke, mother of "When we collected the things from her apartment, we found notebooks and albums with paintings that we had not seen before, paintings that, if they were enlarged and hung on a wall, could be used as beautiful pictures, and it was very exciting."
The late Shani Lok, photo: None
Shani wanted to be an artist?
"She always loved art, she didn't paint to show in an exhibition, but simply loved to paint. Sometimes while talking to us she would sit with a pen or pencil and write and doodle while doing it. She was busy with it all the time and she had a tattoo studio, and that's how she was able to make a living from her art as well. It makes me feel good that we are spreading the beautiful things she did."
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