Joel Mesler’s ‘The Light Within’ illuminates Tel Aviv’s art scene

Another constant backdrop is the pool party scene, inspired by his mother’s frequent social gatherings. “She’d throw a party for any reason,” Mesler recalls, “but behind the laughter, there was tension, gossip, tears, affairs, and drunken confessions.” This dissonance between childhood innocence and adult complexity forms a thread of unresolved emotion, which Mesler now reimagines as healing.