My art derives from my personal experience and from the history of the Jewish people. Surrounded by echoes of the past, I engage events from a contemporary perspective, seeking to depict them with a visual interpretation that is aesthetic, profound and provocative.
Born in Israel less than a decade after the Holocaust, I grew up among survivors and their children. Many struggled to find the words for the horrors they had witnessed and endured. Others yet struggled to listen.
In 1987, I saw Claude Lanzmann’s monumental film “Shoah”
A standing army principle in navigating unknown terrain is always know your point of departure. If you lose your bearings, you can retrace your steps and find your course.
Relocating to the U.S. for art studies at Yale put me on unfamiliar ground and culture, an Israeli in America. And so I returned to my point of departure
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