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Self contained

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Seer of Tears / Collapsing Pathways

Witness the horror and beauty of reality and the space between it emulsifying into a dream about a sunset at the end all things.

#illustration #art #artists on tumblr #dreamscape #seer of tears

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Really… Still seeing people reblog posts calling for the total eradication of an entire nation, and going “This is a totally normal and reasonable position to have - disagreeing means you support genocide” without a hint of irony.

It would be funny if it wasn’t so fucking awful - truly, has everyone lost their damn minds?

I unapologetically believe in and stand for Israel’s right to exist - and that has never, ever meant that I don’t believe Palestine also has a right to exist. Those have never been opposing positions and there are many incredible organisations working together for all the people involved.

If you honestly believe that the solution to this is the total removal of the only Jewish state on the planet from its indigenous land - without truly understanding or caring what that would actually mean in real world terms for the people living there - then it's you who are supporting genocide actually.

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On a personal level, one of the harshest, most cruel things that came out of this horrible war was the realization that many people in this world will never accept my right to simply exist, and will find the most infuriatingly avoidant and pseudo-intellectual rhetorics to do dismiss my existence as a lesser, evil being.

What starts, in many cases, as virtue signaling, leads down a rabbit hole of flat-out antisemitic behavior that bears frightening resemblance to processes we've seen before - ones that lead to the murder of many of my ancestors. They're colored differently now, with academic talks about viewing the world through the colonialist lens and an attempted, hateful deconstruction of half-truths, but at the root of it all - it's the same. In the hearts of those who engineer and curate many of those so called "radical" thoughts, live the same little devils that still see the jews as the other, the greedy, power-hungry, cynical abuser of the world.

Being critical of Israel (and trust me, I am much more critical than most of you since I have way more on the line here) is not the same as hating a people. And if you have that burning hate for a people in your heart - have a talk with yourself, and ask yourself how did you turn into the devil you thought you were fighting.

"Criticizing Israel isn't antisemitism" yeah but accusing Jews of making up hate crimes to derail the conversation around Gaza is. Claiming that the media is controlled by a secret group of all powerful Zionists is. Acting like the Holocaust is something Jews use to get out of trouble instead of an actual genocide that happened within living memory is. Telling us to go back to where we came from is.

"Criticizing Israel isn't antisemitism" yeah well a lot of you aren't being accused of antisemitism because you are criticizing Israel. You're being accused of antisemitism because you are being antisemitic and do nothing but evade and double down when it gets called out.

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Over the last few days I have seen some insane messages and callouts from people who knew me fairly well basically calling my existence a rot and saying me and my country should be wiped off the earth.

I am an Israeli. I was born here, and so were my friends, family and community. A lot of us have spent many years of our life advocating for peace and a two-state solution, that will end the occupation and cease the suffering of the Palestinian people. I believe that a peace agreement is the only sane argument in the face of the insanity we are facing and the complexity of the situation. And yet, so many people choose not to call for peace, but for the eradication of my country.

That phrase you're chanting? means my death. Those calls for "Intifada"? means my death as well. Both my uncle and grandfather were severely injured by terrorist bombings in the last intifada. Both never recovered. You're not calling for a solution - you're calling for more war and death. I want to attribute this to ignorance and not to antisemitism, but honestly, I don't even know anymore.

Do you want a good, positive and important message? call for peace, call for the return of hostages and peace talks, don't call for more death. Call for a viable future for all the people who live in this land.

Seems like a good time to remind people that the phrase "from the river to the sea" - while apparently popular on this hellsite, is basically a call for the total eradication of not just the Israeli state (and by that I don't mean the government, I mean EVERYTHING) but of every Jew in that area.

SO. If I see it on your blog? Bye. I do not trust you to have anything even remotely approaching a nuanced take to this fucking tragedy.

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If I want to use your art as the basis for a tattoo would you be ok with that?

Of course, go ahead! Just make sure to send me a photo, I'd be very happy to see the result.

#secretlycoldwizard

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The little demons of grief came to live with me, in the space between the shadows and the floor.

I can't hear what they're telling me, even though I try.

#illustration #art #artists on tumblr #comics #grief

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I need your help, and I must scream

I haven't posted here in a while, and I usually tend to keep to myself in regards to social media, but the massacre that happened in my home a few days ago has been so haunting that I had to say something.

I will not go into an apologetic rant about how I'm a leftist and believer and peace and have a lot of critique towards Israel's policy all that. It's all true, but that's something you can't say when every person you know has a relative or a friend that were brutally murdered a few days ago.

Israel is a small place. The massacre of Oct 6th, carried out by Hamas out of the Gaza Strip, has been the most brutal terror attack carried in Israel. In which 1300 were killed already. This is the western world's deadliest terror attack after 9/11. Everyone I know, me included, lost someone they know. No, that's not right, they didn't just lose them - they were murdered in the most horrific ways you can imagine.

How bad is it? well, let's just say - trigger warning [impossible to watch]

Families and innocents, butchered and burned alive.

Women raped in front of their dead friends.

Babies, burned alive and decapitated.

Women, children and elderly taken captive and booby trapped. They threaten to broadcast their executions live.

Are you skeptic? Of course, it seems so unreal, so impossible. I've linked sources. It's real. It happened. To my friends, to families I know. The horrors are real, and they will never go away.

Hamas is a terrorist organization. Hamas is ISIS.

What can you do to help? Share this. Spread the word. Speak against Hamas propaganda, examine yourself and your environment critically on this issue. Don't just free Palestine - free it from Hamas and its terrorist, world-ending ideology.

Don't be misled by antisemitic propaganda. You can acknowledge the complexities of the middle-east, while still standing for the simple understanding that even in complex settings, evil is still evil and it must be eradicated. Hamas is evil. It destroys anything its path. It does not kill, it butchers. It does not resist, it poisons. It does not look for a better tomorrow, it looks to eradicate my people, and probably you, dear reader, next.

I stand for peace, but sometimes standing for peace means you must resist war and hell. Be safe, be kind, be critical and be good. Not evil. I hope that you never have to experience the horrors I now live in.

#Israel #Palestine #Hamas #gaza #hamas is isis

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Birth by Dream / Lamenting the Endless Spiral

#art #illustration #concept art #drawing #dream #endless

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The Sleeping Throne

#art #illustration #concept art #throne #sleep #dream #empress

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Dreamweaving

#art #illustration #concept art #dreaming #dream #magic

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The Rooted Seer / Between Autumn and Spring

#art #Illustration #seer #tarot #fortune teller #fall #autumn #spring #roots #ancient #tree #fantasy #landwalker art

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I’m happy to share my thesis project here! 

The Nowhere is a comic story, created especially for mobile reading. It tells the story of a monk's past lives through bits of his memories stored in his belongings. Each memory tells a short story from his life, and each offers a unique reading capability enabled only in this format.

The comic is available for Android phones at the moment and will be accessible to iPhone users as well in a couple of weeks. Here’s a link to the Google Play download.

My Tumblr page hasn’t been updated in a while, sorry about that. I’m more active on my instagram nowadays.

#art #comics #comic #mobile #Illustration #monk #reincarnation #story

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Isles of Repression / The Deep Sea

#art #Illustration #artists on tumblr #surrealism #fantasy #isle #rocks #sea #foam #flight #magic #landwalker art

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New website!

I haven’t been posting here as much, but if you want to view some of my latest works you can head to my new web portfolio, at:

www.ophirsheriff.com

There’s plenty of stuff there I haven’t posted here (or anywhere else, really, some projects that were under wraps for a while due to various reasons). 

#art #illustration #portfolio #concept art #design #landwalker art

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Contamination / Ignition

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The Mask Trader from the Rusty Valleys

#art #illustration #concept art #artists on tumblr #character design #backpacker #mask #trader #valleys #fog #fantasy #tribal #landwalker art