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Three days after my arrival in Israel, I received my first order: painting a large panel for a sukkah at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel in Jerusalem. That year, the local hotels held a contest for the best sukkah. Ours won the first prize. The hotel management threw a lavish banquet at which the winner's diplomas were handed out. In this exciting fashion, I began my life in Israel.

Afterward, my colleagues and I painted huge panels that were later installed on the walls of houses in Maale Adumim. The experience of working alongside artists whose work I greatly admire was both enjoyable and useful. Additional orders followed: I created a huge painting for a chess school (naturally, the painting was chess-themed). I was fascinated by the experience of rushing from one end of the painting to the other, frantically tying up the disparate pictorial threads into a single whole. It was a tough challenge, but, with my experience of painting the curtain at the workshops of the Bolshoi Theater during practical work back in 1980, I was undaunted.