Atmosphere AL –EL magazine. February 2008 copy number 114 Marilyn Monroe: The Red Velvet Dita Daniel is about to recreate Marilyn Monroe's first photo series, the one that launched her career, as well as Playboy Magazine's. The result will be a documentary film and an exhibition that will be presented in Israel and around the world. Camera-front nudity is not new to Daniel, artist, model, actress and homeopathic healer, who uses her body as a basis for her paintings By Ran Ziv On my way to the interview with Adit (Dita) Daniel (43), I heard on the radio a program dedicated to the concept of a "woman". How symbolic that this concept was to be the very focus of our conversation: Daniel, an artist, an actress and a colorful model, who also deals with homeopathic healing, Tai Chi and Chi Kong, is soon about to cope with the image of the mythological woman, Marilyn Monroe. Nearly 60 years after Monroe's first nude photo series, which launched her career and acted as a trigger for the sexual revolution of the 50's in the USA and across the world, Daniel will recreate the "Red Velvet" series. The shooting will take place in the very same studios, by the son of the original photographer, Tom Kelley Jr. The recreation will be a part of a documentary film that Daniel is preparing and the photo series will be presented afterwards in exhibitions in Israel and in California. Marilyn Monroe's Picture At age 6 Daniel saw Marilyn Monroe's photo for the first time and was fascinated. It was the photo called "Position No. 1" which also appeared on the cover of Playboy Magazine's first issue ever, in 1953. "She mesmerized me" says Daniel. At the time, her parents ran a prestigious women's clothing shop in Holon, named after her mother, Nina. "Mother was painting, sewing and designing", she says, "so there were always magazines in the house with pretty models, and I would sit and leaf through them for hours. I liked the beauty, the colorfulness and the harmony". And then she saw Marilyn Monroe. When Daniel was 10 years old, her father, Moshe, an artistic carpenter, received a nude painting from one of his customers, painter Ester Peretz-Arad: "It was the first nude in our house. I realized immediately that the language of nudity was the language of art." At age 6 Daniel had been diagnosed as a gifted child in the areas of art. Following the diagnosis her parents sent her to study in a special art classes for gifted children in the Tel-Aviv Museum. From there she continued on to “Thelma Yelin”, High School for the Arts. "They had great expectations of me, and I also possessed a lot of curiosity and inquisitiveness. On one hand, I was shy, introspective, ugly and fat. I began suffering from eating disorders at a young age. On the other hand, I posed nude for the first time at age 14. I wanted to study art from both ends, both as an artist and as a model." Daniel continued to meet with nudity along her career, and this interaction helped crystallize her philosophy, related to Adam and Eve and their banishment from The Garden of Eden. "I was bothered by the existence of evil in the world, and especially by the question of why the woman is being punished until today. It seems we are to blame for what happened to mankind. I could not accept the idea that our whole existence as women is the embodiment of evil and that it is all cast upon us. I, for one, feel wholesome and that there is no evil in me. So I took my clothes off and started taking photos of me. I feel too transparent as it is. I felt I didn't need dividers between me and the rest of the world, and certainly not between myself and God. I am not religious, but I do believe a high-level intelligence exists in the cosmos, not necessarily a divinity according to Judaism." Marilyn Monroe's Energy Daniel began painting Eve, Venus and Aphrodite. In her eyes they, just like Marilyn Monroe, represent the progression of the same woman and symbolize unconditional love, beauty and harmony. In her opinion, they are also related to the "Golden Section", that mystical mathematical relationship (of about 1.618) used in art and in architecture since the time of Classic Greece. Many see in its very existence proof that the world is a planned act of creation. Some refer to it, since the Renaissance period, as the "Divine Proportion". She considers herself as a Renaissance-world painter. "In those days, a painter could also be a doctor and a poet. They understood that in the mind of an artist like Leonardo Da Vinci or Michelangelo could reside several different skills simultaneously. The thread uniting all those skills is art." Why should a nude soul be painted? "The by-product reaction to art is healing. It is the soul passing. Our aspiration is to return to Eden. The original sin is referring to the shell, to nudity. In my paintings there is no evil, but reality as it was before sin and guilt and sexual lust, before the appearance of destructive lust." Marilyn Monroe's

Atmosphere AL –EL magazine. February 2008 copy number 114 Marilyn Monroe: The Red Velvet Dita Daniel is about to recreate Marilyn Monroe's first photo series, the one that launched her career, as well as Playboy Magazine's. The result will be a documentary film and an exhibition that will be presented in Israel and around the world. Camera-front nudity is not new to Daniel, artist, model, actress and homeopathic healer, who uses her body as a basis for her paintings By Ran Ziv On my way to the interview with Adit (Dita) Daniel (43), I heard on the radio a program dedicated to the concept of a "woman". How symbolic that this concept was to be the very focus of our conversation: Daniel, an artist, an actress and a colorful model, who also deals with homeopathic healing, Tai Chi and Chi Kong, is soon about to cope with the image of the mythological woman, Marilyn Monroe. Nearly 60 years after Monroe's first nude photo series, which launched her career and acted as a trigger for the sexual revolution of the 50's in the USA and across the world, Daniel will recreate the "Red Velvet" series. The shooting will take place in the very same studios, by the son of the original photographer, Tom Kelley Jr. The recreation will be a part of a documentary film that Daniel is preparing and the photo series will be presented afterwards in exhibitions in Israel and in California. Marilyn Monroe's Picture At age 6 Daniel saw Marilyn Monroe's photo for the first time and was fascinated. It was the photo called "Position No. 1" which also appeared on the cover of Playboy Magazine's first issue ever, in 1953. "She mesmerized me" says Daniel. At the time, her parents ran a prestigious women's clothing shop in Holon, named after her mother, Nina. "Mother was painting, sewing and designing", she says, "so there were always magazines in the house with pretty models, and I would sit and leaf through them for hours. I liked the beauty, the colorfulness and the harmony". And then she saw Marilyn Monroe. When Daniel was 10 years old, her father, Moshe, an artistic carpenter, received a nude painting from one of his customers, painter Ester Peretz-Arad: "It was the first nude in our house. I realized immediately that the language of nudity was the language of art." At age 6 Daniel had been diagnosed as a gifted child in the areas of art. Following the diagnosis her parents sent her to study in a special art classes for gifted children in the Tel-Aviv Museum. From there she continued on to “Thelma Yelin”, High School for the Arts. "They had great expectations of me, and I also possessed a lot of curiosity and inquisitiveness. On one hand, I was shy, introspective, ugly and fat. I began suffering from eating disorders at a young age. On the other hand, I posed nude for the first time at age 14. I wanted to study art from both ends, both as an artist and as a model." Daniel continued to meet with nudity along her career, and this interaction helped crystallize her philosophy, related to Adam and Eve and their banishment from The Garden of Eden. "I was bothered by the existence of evil in the world, and especially by the question of why the woman is being punished until today. It seems we are to blame for what happened to mankind. I could not accept the idea that our whole existence as women is the embodiment of evil and that it is all cast upon us. I, for one, feel wholesome and that there is no evil in me. So I took my clothes off and started taking photos of me. I feel too transparent as it is. I felt I didn't need dividers between me and the rest of the world, and certainly not between myself and God. I am not religious, but I do believe a high-level intelligence exists in the cosmos, not necessarily a divinity according to Judaism." Marilyn Monroe's Energy Daniel began painting Eve, Venus and Aphrodite. In her eyes they, just like Marilyn Monroe, represent the progression of the same woman and symbolize unconditional love, beauty and harmony. In her opinion, they are also related to the "Golden Section", that mystical mathematical relationship (of about 1.618) used in art and in architecture since the time of Classic Greece. Many see in its very existence proof that the world is a planned act of creation. Some refer to it, since the Renaissance period, as the "Divine Proportion". She considers herself as a Renaissance-world painter. "In those days, a painter could also be a doctor and a poet. They understood that in the mind of an artist like Leonardo Da Vinci or Michelangelo could reside several different skills simultaneously. The thread uniting all those skills is art." Why should a nude soul be painted? "The by-product reaction to art is healing. It is the soul passing. Our aspiration is to return to Eden. The original sin is referring to the shell, to nudity. In my paintings there is no evil, but reality as it was before sin and guilt and sexual lust, before the appearance of destructive lust." Marilyn Monroe's

Atmosphere AL –EL magazine. February 2008 copy number 114 Marilyn Monroe: The Red Velvet Dita Daniel is about to recreate Marilyn Monroe's first photo series, the one that launched her career, as well as Playboy Magazine's. The result will be a documentary film and an exhibition that will be presented in Israel and around the world. Camera-front nudity is not new to Daniel, artist, model, actress and homeopathic healer, who uses her body as a basis for her paintings By Ran Ziv On my way to the interview with Adit (Dita) Daniel (43), I heard on the radio a program dedicated to the concept of a "woman". How symbolic that this concept was to be the very focus of our conversation: Daniel, an artist, an actress and a colorful model, who also deals with homeopathic healing, Tai Chi and Chi Kong, is soon about to cope with the image of the mythological woman, Marilyn Monroe. Nearly 60 years after Monroe's first nude photo series, which launched her career and acted as a trigger for the sexual revolution of the 50's in the USA and across the world, Daniel will recreate the "Red Velvet" series. The shooting will take place in the very same studios, by the son of the original photographer, Tom Kelley Jr. The recreation will be a part of a documentary film that Daniel is preparing and the photo series will be presented afterwards in exhibitions in Israel and in California. Marilyn Monroe's Picture At age 6 Daniel saw Marilyn Monroe's photo for the first time and was fascinated. It was the photo called "Position No. 1" which also appeared on the cover of Playboy Magazine's first issue ever, in 1953. "She mesmerized me" says Daniel. At the time, her parents ran a prestigious women's clothing shop in Holon, named after her mother, Nina. "Mother was painting, sewing and designing", she says, "so there were always magazines in the house with pretty models, and I would sit and leaf through them for hours. I liked the beauty, the colorfulness and the harmony". And then she saw Marilyn Monroe. When Daniel was 10 years old, her father, Moshe, an artistic carpenter, received a nude painting from one of his customers, painter Ester Peretz-Arad: "It was the first nude in our house. I realized immediately that the language of nudity was the language of art." At age 6 Daniel had been diagnosed as a gifted child in the areas of art. Following the diagnosis her parents sent her to study in a special art classes for gifted children in the Tel-Aviv Museum. From there she continued on to “Thelma Yelin”, High School for the Arts. "They had great expectations of me, and I also possessed a lot of curiosity and inquisitiveness. On one hand, I was shy, introspective, ugly and fat. I began suffering from eating disorders at a young age. On the other hand, I posed nude for the first time at age 14. I wanted to study art from both ends, both as an artist and as a model." Daniel continued to meet with nudity along her career, and this interaction helped crystallize her philosophy, related to Adam and Eve and their banishment from The Garden of Eden. "I was bothered by the existence of evil in the world, and especially by the question of why the woman is being punished until today. It seems we are to blame for what happened to mankind. I could not accept the idea that our whole existence as women is the embodiment of evil and that it is all cast upon us. I, for one, feel wholesome and that there is no evil in me. So I took my clothes off and started taking photos of me. I feel too transparent as it is. I felt I didn't need dividers between me and the rest of the world, and certainly not between myself and God. I am not religious, but I do believe a high-level intelligence exists in the cosmos, not necessarily a divinity according to Judaism." Marilyn Monroe's Energy Daniel began painting Eve, Venus and Aphrodite. In her eyes they, just like Marilyn Monroe, represent the progression of the same woman and symbolize unconditional love, beauty and harmony. In her opinion, they are also related to the "Golden Section", that mystical mathematical relationship (of about 1.618) used in art and in architecture since the time of Classic Greece. Many see in its very existence proof that the world is a planned act of creation. Some refer to it, since the Renaissance period, as the "Divine Proportion". She considers herself as a Renaissance-world painter. "In those days, a painter could also be a doctor and a poet. They understood that in the mind of an artist like Leonardo Da Vinci or Michelangelo could reside several different skills simultaneously. The thread uniting all those skills is art." Why should a nude soul be painted? "The by-product reaction to art is healing. It is the soul passing. Our aspiration is to return to Eden. The original sin is referring to the shell, to nudity. In my paintings there is no evil, but reality as it was before sin and guilt and sexual lust, before the appearance of destructive lust." Marilyn Monroe's

Atmosphere AL –EL magazine. February 2008 copy number 114 Marilyn Monroe: The Red Velvet Dita Daniel is about to recreate Marilyn Monroe's first photo series, the one that launched her career, as well as Playboy Magazine's. The result will be a documentary film and an exhibition that will be presented in Israel and around the world. Camera-front nudity is not new to Daniel, artist, model, actress and homeopathic healer, who uses her body as a basis for her paintings By Ran Ziv On my way to the interview with Adit (Dita) Daniel (43), I heard on the radio a program dedicated to the concept of a "woman". How symbolic that this concept was to be the very focus of our conversation: Daniel, an artist, an actress and a colorful model, who also deals with homeopathic healing, Tai Chi and Chi Kong, is soon about to cope with the image of the mythological woman, Marilyn Monroe. Nearly 60 years after Monroe's first nude photo series, which launched her career and acted as a trigger for the sexual revolution of the 50's in the USA and across the world, Daniel will recreate the "Red Velvet" series. The shooting will take place in the very same studios, by the son of the original photographer, Tom Kelley Jr. The recreation will be a part of a documentary film that Daniel is preparing and the photo series will be presented afterwards in exhibitions in Israel and in California. Marilyn Monroe's Picture At age 6 Daniel saw Marilyn Monroe's photo for the first time and was fascinated. It was the photo called "Position No. 1" which also appeared on the cover of Playboy Magazine's first issue ever, in 1953. "She mesmerized me" says Daniel. At the time, her parents ran a prestigious women's clothing shop in Holon, named after her mother, Nina. "Mother was painting, sewing and designing", she says, "so there were always magazines in the house with pretty models, and I would sit and leaf through them for hours. I liked the beauty, the colorfulness and the harmony". And then she saw Marilyn Monroe. When Daniel was 10 years old, her father, Moshe, an artistic carpenter, received a nude painting from one of his customers, painter Ester Peretz-Arad: "It was the first nude in our house. I realized immediately that the language of nudity was the language of art." At age 6 Daniel had been diagnosed as a gifted child in the areas of art. Following the diagnosis her parents sent her to study in a special art classes for gifted children in the Tel-Aviv Museum. From there she continued on to “Thelma Yelin”, High School for the Arts. "They had great expectations of me, and I also possessed a lot of curiosity and inquisitiveness. On one hand, I was shy, introspective, ugly and fat. I began suffering from eating disorders at a young age. On the other hand, I posed nude for the first time at age 14. I wanted to study art from both ends, both as an artist and as a model." Daniel continued to meet with nudity along her career, and this interaction helped crystallize her philosophy, related to Adam and Eve and their banishment from The Garden of Eden. "I was bothered by the existence of evil in the world, and especially by the question of why the woman is being punished until today. It seems we are to blame for what happened to mankind. I could not accept the idea that our whole existence as women is the embodiment of evil and that it is all cast upon us. I, for one, feel wholesome and that there is no evil in me. So I took my clothes off and started taking photos of me. I feel too transparent as it is. I felt I didn't need dividers between me and the rest of the world, and certainly not between myself and God. I am not religious, but I do believe a high-level intelligence exists in the cosmos, not necessarily a divinity according to Judaism." Marilyn Monroe's Energy Daniel began painting Eve, Venus and Aphrodite. In her eyes they, just like Marilyn Monroe, represent the progression of the same woman and symbolize unconditional love, beauty and harmony. In her opinion, they are also related to the "Golden Section", that mystical mathematical relationship (of about 1.618) used in art and in architecture since the time of Classic Greece. Many see in its very existence proof that the world is a planned act of creation. Some refer to it, since the Renaissance period, as the "Divine Proportion". She considers herself as a Renaissance-world painter. "In those days, a painter could also be a doctor and a poet. They understood that in the mind of an artist like Leonardo Da Vinci or Michelangelo could reside several different skills simultaneously. The thread uniting all those skills is art." Why should a nude soul be painted? "The by-product reaction to art is healing. It is the soul passing. Our aspiration is to return to Eden. The original sin is referring to the shell, to nudity. In my paintings there is no evil, but reality as it was before sin and guilt and sexual lust, before the appearance of destructive lust." Marilyn Monroe's

Atmosphere AL –EL magazine. February 2008 copy number 114 Marilyn Monroe: The Red Velvet Dita Daniel is about to recreate Marilyn Monroe's first photo series, the one that launched her career, as well as Playboy Magazine's. The result will be a documentary film and an exhibition that will be presented in Israel and around the world. Camera-front nudity is not new to Daniel, artist, model, actress and homeopathic healer, who uses her body as a basis for her paintings By Ran Ziv On my way to the interview with Adit (Dita) Daniel (43), I heard on the radio a program dedicated to the concept of a "woman". How symbolic that this concept was to be the very focus of our conversation: Daniel, an artist, an actress and a colorful model, who also deals with homeopathic healing, Tai Chi and Chi Kong, is soon about to cope with the image of the mythological woman, Marilyn Monroe. Nearly 60 years after Monroe's first nude photo series, which launched her career and acted as a trigger for the sexual revolution of the 50's in the USA and across the world, Daniel will recreate the "Red Velvet" series. The shooting will take place in the very same studios, by the son of the original photographer, Tom Kelley Jr. The recreation will be a part of a documentary film that Daniel is preparing and the photo series will be presented afterwards in exhibitions in Israel and in California. Marilyn Monroe's Picture At age 6 Daniel saw Marilyn Monroe's photo for the first time and was fascinated. It was the photo called "Position No. 1" which also appeared on the cover of Playboy Magazine's first issue ever, in 1953. "She mesmerized me" says Daniel. At the time, her parents ran a prestigious women's clothing shop in Holon, named after her mother, Nina. "Mother was painting, sewing and designing", she says, "so there were always magazines in the house with pretty models, and I would sit and leaf through them for hours. I liked the beauty, the colorfulness and the harmony". And then she saw Marilyn Monroe. When Daniel was 10 years old, her father, Moshe, an artistic carpenter, received a nude painting from one of his customers, painter Ester Peretz-Arad: "It was the first nude in our house. I realized immediately that the language of nudity was the language of art." At age 6 Daniel had been diagnosed as a gifted child in the areas of art. Following the diagnosis her parents sent her to study in a special art classes for gifted children in the Tel-Aviv Museum. From there she continued on to “Thelma Yelin”, High School for the Arts. "They had great expectations of me, and I also possessed a lot of curiosity and inquisitiveness. On one hand, I was shy, introspective, ugly and fat. I began suffering from eating disorders at a young age. On the other hand, I posed nude for the first time at age 14. I wanted to study art from both ends, both as an artist and as a model." Daniel continued to meet with nudity along her career, and this interaction helped crystallize her philosophy, related to Adam and Eve and their banishment from The Garden of Eden. "I was bothered by the existence of evil in the world, and especially by the question of why the woman is being punished until today. It seems we are to blame for what happened to mankind. I could not accept the idea that our whole existence as women is the embodiment of evil and that it is all cast upon us. I, for one, feel wholesome and that there is no evil in me. So I took my clothes off and started taking photos of me. I feel too transparent as it is. I felt I didn't need dividers between me and the rest of the world, and certainly not between myself and God. I am not religious, but I do believe a high-level intelligence exists in the cosmos, not necessarily a divinity according to Judaism." Marilyn Monroe's Energy Daniel began painting Eve, Venus and Aphrodite. In her eyes they, just like Marilyn Monroe, represent the progression of the same woman and symbolize unconditional love, beauty and harmony. In her opinion, they are also related to the "Golden Section", that mystical mathematical relationship (of about 1.618) used in art and in architecture since the time of Classic Greece. Many see in its very existence proof that the world is a planned act of creation. Some refer to it, since the Renaissance period, as the "Divine Proportion". She considers herself as a Renaissance-world painter. "In those days, a painter could also be a doctor and a poet. They understood that in the mind of an artist like Leonardo Da Vinci or Michelangelo could reside several different skills simultaneously. The thread uniting all those skills is art." Why should a nude soul be painted? "The by-product reaction to art is healing. It is the soul passing. Our aspiration is to return to Eden. The original sin is referring to the shell, to nudity. In my paintings there is no evil, but reality as it was before sin and guilt and sexual lust, before the appearance of destructive lust." Marilyn Monroe's

Atmosphere AL –EL magazine. February 2008 copy number 114 Marilyn Monroe: The Red Velvet Dita Daniel is about to recreate Marilyn Monroe's first photo series, the one that launched her career, as well as Playboy Magazine's. The result will be a documentary film and an exhibition that will be presented in Israel and around the world. Camera-front nudity is not new to Daniel, artist, model, actress and homeopathic healer, who uses her body as a basis for her paintings By Ran Ziv On my way to the interview with Adit (Dita) Daniel (43), I heard on the radio a program dedicated to the concept of a "woman". How symbolic that this concept was to be the very focus of our conversation: Daniel, an artist, an actress and a colorful model, who also deals with homeopathic healing, Tai Chi and Chi Kong, is soon about to cope with the image of the mythological woman, Marilyn Monroe. Nearly 60 years after Monroe's first nude photo series, which launched her career and acted as a trigger for the sexual revolution of the 50's in the USA and across the world, Daniel will recreate the "Red Velvet" series. The shooting will take place in the very same studios, by the son of the original photographer, Tom Kelley Jr. The recreation will be a part of a documentary film that Daniel is preparing and the photo series will be presented afterwards in exhibitions in Israel and in California. Marilyn Monroe's Picture At age 6 Daniel saw Marilyn Monroe's photo for the first time and was fascinated. It was the photo called "Position No. 1" which also appeared on the cover of Playboy Magazine's first issue ever, in 1953. "She mesmerized me" says Daniel. At the time, her parents ran a prestigious women's clothing shop in Holon, named after her mother, Nina. "Mother was painting, sewing and designing", she says, "so there were always magazines in the house with pretty models, and I would sit and leaf through them for hours. I liked the beauty, the colorfulness and the harmony". And then she saw Marilyn Monroe. When Daniel was 10 years old, her father, Moshe, an artistic carpenter, received a nude painting from one of his customers, painter Ester Peretz-Arad: "It was the first nude in our house. I realized immediately that the language of nudity was the language of art." At age 6 Daniel had been diagnosed as a gifted child in the areas of art. Following the diagnosis her parents sent her to study in a special art classes for gifted children in the Tel-Aviv Museum. From there she continued on to “Thelma Yelin”, High School for the Arts. "They had great expectations of me, and I also possessed a lot of curiosity and inquisitiveness. On one hand, I was shy, introspective, ugly and fat. I began suffering from eating disorders at a young age. On the other hand, I posed nude for the first time at age 14. I wanted to study art from both ends, both as an artist and as a model." Daniel continued to meet with nudity along her career, and this interaction helped crystallize her philosophy, related to Adam and Eve and their banishment from The Garden of Eden. "I was bothered by the existence of evil in the world, and especially by the question of why the woman is being punished until today. It seems we are to blame for what happened to mankind. I could not accept the idea that our whole existence as women is the embodiment of evil and that it is all cast upon us. I, for one, feel wholesome and that there is no evil in me. So I took my clothes off and started taking photos of me. I feel too transparent as it is. I felt I didn't need dividers between me and the rest of the world, and certainly not between myself and God. I am not religious, but I do believe a high-level intelligence exists in the cosmos, not necessarily a divinity according to Judaism." Marilyn Monroe's Energy Daniel began painting Eve, Venus and Aphrodite. In her eyes they, just like Marilyn Monroe, represent the progression of the same woman and symbolize unconditional love, beauty and harmony. In her opinion, they are also related to the "Golden Section", that mystical mathematical relationship (of about 1.618) used in art and in architecture since the time of Classic Greece. Many see in its very existence proof that the world is a planned act of creation. Some refer to it, since the Renaissance period, as the "Divine Proportion". She considers herself as a Renaissance-world painter. "In those days, a painter could also be a doctor and a poet. They understood that in the mind of an artist like Leonardo Da Vinci or Michelangelo could reside several different skills simultaneously. The thread uniting all those skills is art." Why should a nude soul be painted? "The by-product reaction to art is healing. It is the soul passing. Our aspiration is to return to Eden. The original sin is referring to the shell, to nudity. In my paintings there is no evil, but reality as it was before sin and guilt and sexual lust, before the appearance of destructive lust." Marilyn Monroe's