An Interview with Leeorah Hursky
By Andreea Tincea Published: February 27, 2011 DARIA! Magazine®
MONSTERS ON CANVAS. NAKED SOUL. And, with the tolerance of the spicy English language, JUICY! The closest to the mirror will always be yourself. Consequently, about Leeorah Hursky, she speaks best about herself in the 3 autobiographical books (MONSTERS ON CANVAS, NAKED and JUICY, the latter being still in the writing process). This article will only attempt to catch a few details from an interview about the 56-year old woman, from Cape Town, South Africa…the author, the painter and the healer, who has put her own life into the hands of the Hawaiian shamans and in the strength of passion.
Leeorah Hursky (http://www.leeorahhursky.com/leeorah-hursky) is the resident artist invited by Maestro Bruno Pischiutta and Producer Daria Trifu of the film Abused in America to create throughout the whole shooting period in Romania. Her paintings will accompany the work and the personal exercise of the actors and of the production team, as a form of reflection and balancing of the emotions involved in the film’s story.
“I feel Australian and South African…”
After 30 years lived in the midst of a society governed by the apartheid’s law (racial segregation) in a world where white and black could not merry, and after a normal life of wife and mother of 2 children, Leeorah left for Australia in 1988. There her life changed completely. She experienced the Hawaiian shamanic initiation in the Akalani ancient knowledge (the wisdom of healing through the balancing of the cellular and emotional system with the release of the negative patterns); she studied and she rediscovered herself. The roots of her career change were born there. After years of processing and self discovery, Leeorah, a dentist by profession, became an Akalani healer recognized in both Australia and Germany. Beyond all the traveling around the world in the past 20 years, she never stopped painting.
(L.H.) “2 years ago my father died and I had to go back to Africa and I was totally taken away by Africa…”
For 2 years, her life has stabilized back to South Africa. At 56, she writes her 3rd book on a new journey: JUICY.
(L.H.) “I used to paint monsters. My book NAKED SOUL is about that period. JUICY is my journey to meeting Daria and Bruno. How an unknown actress, 50 and something, makes a journey to meet other people she doesn’t know.”
“For pretty pictures you use a camera, but I want to paint the deepest dark.”
She has never studied acting and did not participate in any professional casting. Last year, however, a director met her on the street and offered her the chance to perform in a short film. She then learned to edit audio and video materials, to perform and not to inhibit her creativity.
