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Ava (with A as in awe or awful) Carmel was born in Toronto, Canada. In the Sixties she was a singer songwriter, performing in the clubs of Yorkville Village. She then moved to Israel and settled in a little Galilean village with a Mediterranean view.
For many years Ava worked as a freelance journalist, writing about the positive aspects of life in Galilee — mainly coexistence, tourism, and archaeology. She then became a technical writer and still works part time in high tech.
In addition she writes, translates, and edits.
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About 20 years ago Ava spontaneously began creating collages, when trying to deal with a trauma from adolescence. She tore some pictures out of a magazine, pasted them on a blank page and realized that she had found her medium.
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After several years of mute collages, she discovered that words from newspaper headlines added a new dimension.
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Severe Silence, her first book, is a collection of collages, poems, and journal entries documenting her journey from a silent wife to an outspoken, independent woman.
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