Jewish Journal  Art With A Twist—It Inflates!  July 13, 2006 |
8:00 pm  He didn't know it at the time, but when Doron Gazit
discovered twisty balloons while working as a camp counselor at
a Jewish summer camp in Texas, it was the start of something
big.  Most Americans know the twisty as the elongated latex
balloons used to make poodle-like dogs or hats for children at
fairs, circuses and birthday parties, but for an Israeli like
Gazit, the twisty was something entirely new. He brought back as
many as he could to Israel and began selling them on Jerusalem's
Ben Yehuda Street. He would soon begin huffing and puffing his
way to bigger and better things.  The twisties served as his
inspiration for creating artwork out of large colorful air tubes
made from a stronger plastic and supporting them with heavy duty
high pressure blowers. Today, he produces tunnels, canopies and
decorations galore using the tubes and highlights, air
sculptures that inflate to specific shapes.  Gazit ended up in
Los Angeles when he was