Dede Bandaid 🩹 Street & Art

🩹 I started painting bandaids about fifteen years ago, out of PTSD after my military service. I felt alone then. I didn't think I'm the only one feeling this way but I was looking for someone to share my feelings with. So I shared it with every passerby on the street, painting bandaids obsessively for years. After all this time, I can say I'm healed, but if I learned something, is that we are a PTSD nation. I got tons of emails and messages from people, sharing their personal stories with me. I found that this symbol stay relevant for so many years and in too many occasions. When I'm painting it now it's out of other people's traumas too: private people, communities, countries. I can't stop painting them, because I feel they are needed. Comment, DM or Email me if you'd like to share a story 🩹 Photo by @ofekavshalom In the photo @dedebandaid

The biggest bandaid in the world 💙Independence day 2020💙 Few words about my artistic path ~ It's amazingly hard to work as an independent artist making your way slowly from (literally) the ground. One of the truly rare moments along my career when I felt like I can actually achieve any goal and overcome any challenge independently is this very moment in the photo. 🔎 Me, on a 30 m long bandaid at the heart of the city I love.⁠ In this project the challenge was double, pulling up this huge bandaid without being seen in the center of Tel-Aviv and as part of a larger indie campaign, making my own real bandaids come true. 💙 I owe a huge thank you to all of you supporters for standing by my side. I couldn't make it without you. 📷 Thank you for the photos Barak Brinker

🚇 I'M STILL SHOCKED 🚇 Look what just went up in London's underground! 👉🏼 When I first planned this image for an illegal ad-takeover few years ago, I could never imagin it will some day be installed in one of the world's busiest underground stations. ⁠ 🥰 Thank you so much for making this dream come true @mtartagency @marinetanguyart ⁠ Model: @talikayam Studio photography: @pavlina737 ⁠ 💓 Are you in London? I would love to get more photos and video's from Oxford circus station! Warm up your oyster card and please head over if you can!⁠

One hand with a newborn, the other packing up an entire studio. There is an opportunity here for art lovers so keep reading. The chapter of creating in this incredible space has come to an end and a new, more powerful chapter has begun with the birth of our daughter. Everything is happening at once. New life and a creative space being packed into boxes after two years of work, growth, and transformation. Where will the next studio be? We don’t know yet! For now, we are sorting, folding, and storing the works making space for what comes next. And this is exactly the moment to share We invite you to request our updated portfolio. Works are available at special prices for our community and followers for the next week only. Priority shipping within the United States. Unfortunately, shipping abroad is more complicated (but possible) at the moment, we apologize in advance. We would love if you share and pass this along to anyone who might be interested. This is a final opportunity to acquire works from this period ❤️‍🔥 . . Pic by @alonik

On my first Mother’s Day as a mom, I wanted to use the two seconds of quiet I have to write something about this piece Dede and I created together during my pregnancy. You see me here in the painting, five months pregnant, visiting Dia Beacon and standing before Richard Serra’s monumental sculpture. It was a difficult moment for me. A frightened pregnant artist, married to an artist, and both of us about to become parents in a new country, in a foreign city, while our careers here were only supposedly just beginning. Standing before the enormous belly of that famous, masculine, heavily funded sculpture shook me. How can you keep creating when there’s a creature who will soon take both your hands, your days, and your nights? Is my career over? The kind of thoughts so many mothers must have when they dare to want both: career and motherhood. So I pushed my own belly outward toward the sculpture and you can judge for yourselves Who won the big belly competition? Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers and fathers. Pic by @alonik

After four days of an incredibly difficult labor that ended in a C section, we finally left the hospital and brought our little sunshine home. On May 5th, our first daughter was born (right on Cinco de Mayo or Lag BaOmer: the Mexican victory over the French Empire, or the Maccabean battles against the Roman Empire). Choose your battles or your bottles. It all began unexpectedly. We went to the hospital for what was supposed to be a routine check up, with no bags packed and three important meetings scheduled on our calendar that day, meetings that were meant to help us take care of some of our massive artworks and figure out solutions for our future. Remember how we were evacuated from our studio right before the birth? It’s only been a few days since we last overwhelmed you with that saga. In the meantime, we were busy fighting to bring life into the world. And so, after a long, difficult birth that ended in surgery, after four days in the hospital, we came home confused, stitched up, swollen slowly beginning to understand what having a baby actually means. For anyone who hasn’t gone through it yet but hopes to one day: it’s a little like jumping off the roof of a very tall building, knowing it’s the most important and meaningful thing in the world. It hasn’t even been a week since she was born, and already our lives are more fascinating than ever before, stranger, more wondrous, filled with tears and joy, and above all, with a deeper kind of love between us through the shared effort of raising her. Thank you mount Sinai west for everything. For saving our baby and fighting for us. If any of you know someone at mount Sinai west that would be a good connection to donate an artwork of us as a gift. feel free to connect

How poetic. Our piece “Tears” is no longer hanging on the wall it’s packed for shipment, leaving the studio we love and finding an incredible new forever home. Meanwhile, we are filled with tears of sadness over having to leave our beloved space, in aching bodies and hormonal storms, alongside endless tears of excitement as we await the arrival of our daughter. In the coming days, we’ll be closing out all remaining orders as each work makes its way to its new home, and then doing our best to focus on finding a new studio/storage space before the birth. You’re warmly invited to request an updated portfolio as soon as possible before my water literally breaks. 💙 Pic by @alonik

The Love Has Been Incredible. The Emergency Isn’t Over. To everyone who followed, purchased, made calls, shared our work with different communities, and truly understood after we posted our last two posts that we are under immense emotional and physical pressure from everything happening to us all at once Thank you. You are extraordinary people, and we appreciate you more than we can fully express. we still need you ❤️ Sometimes, when life becomes overwhelmingly complicated at the most vulnerable and sensitive moments, and you find yourself asking, “Why? Why now?” you also discover that these moments can become an opportunity to witness the goodness in community, and in people. Our journey to find solutions a new studio, storage, homes for this body of work is not over yet. But the amount of love we’ve received somehow makes it feel worth it. We are deeply grateful for each and every one of you. The portfolio we previously shared has already shifted, shrunk, and changed since then. If you’d like to see the current available works, please feel free to message us privately. And of course, we are still actively looking for meaningful solutions: proper exhibition opportunities for large-scale works, accessible ongoing storage, and hopefully a space where we can continue creating and building alongside the baby girl who will be arriving any moment now. You truly lifted our hearts.

Not Just a Baby on the Way! In the Midst of Chaos, One Massive Artwork Must Find a Home! As many of you read in our previous post we are quite literally on the verge of welcoming our baby girl. It could happen any second… or maybe in two weeks. At this point, no one really knows. And then, just two days ago, we received sudden news from the owners of our beloved studio building, immediate evacuation of all artists who’ve been part of this extraordinary program over the years. Under any circumstances, this would be intense. But standing on the edge of birth, the timing feels especially surreal. Still, we’re trying to meet this moment with optimism, creativity, and an open heart. So maybe this unexpected upheaval can become a rare opportunity for you. Right now, we are urgently seeking solutions, especially for monumental works like the one pictured here. Perhaps you have: A grand lobby that deserves to leave visitors speechless A tech company or creative workspace craving bold, unforgettable art A collection or large scale space waiting for the right piece We would love to explore permanent placement, temporary exhibition, or acquisition, and honestly, we have a feeling some of you may imagine possibilities even more exciting than our own. And there’s more! This piece also comes housed in a custom painted crate that we painted on and can be used as a bench! Yes! It’s truly a 2-in-1. If this resonates, sparks an idea, or reminds you of someone who needs to see it, please reach out. Feel free to share with your community Photo @alonik

As we get ready to welcome our first daughter (!), we’re also saying goodbye to our beloved studio of the past year and a half. There's an opportunity here so please keep reading and feel free to share this with anyone who might connect with the work or be interested. To mark this moment, we’re opening a rare, one-time opportunity: For the next two weeks only- special prices on available works. Please note-no studio visits at this time. If you’ve been following, considering, or waiting, this is the moment 🤍 DM us for available pieces + fresh works from the studio. Short story LONG ;) We’re about two weeks away from welcoming our first daughter, and in the midst of this deeply emotional time, we also received difficult news connected to a moment that feels so foundational in our lives. For the past year and a half, we’ve been grateful to work from a beautiful studio in Manhattan, an incredible gift of space that held so much of our making, thinking, and becoming. Due to circumstances on the owner’s side, we’ve been asked to return the space. So here we are, in a very tender and intense moment, just before birth, navigating an unexpected ending, trying to hold onto what’s good and meaningful in it all. In that spirit, we felt it could also be a moment to reach out with a special offering: If you’re interested, please feel free to reach out and we’ll send a relevant portfolio with works and pricing. We’re sharing this with honesty, as we always try to, through both joy and difficulty. And we do feel that even within this turbulence, there is something ultimately meaningful unfolding. Wishing warmth to anyone going through transitions, births or life changes 🤍 Photo @alonik

"We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves" 🏔️ Video by @alonik

🩹 More than ever 🏳️