Identity Landscapes
This body of work explores the search for transcendence in the face of the realities of a post October 7th world.
Since that fateful date, a search for answers and meaning has driven me to augment my exploration of what it means to be a modern Jewish and Israeli woman with the fundamental questions of humanity and morality to be found in the study of ancient Jewish texts.
These large scale constructions on canvas are inspired by my experiences as a Jewish wife and mother raising three boys in a chaotic and often hostile modern world. My gaze looks both inward, at the ever-changing female body and its perceptions as an object of desire, stability and resentment, and outward, to a broader world increasingly dominated by consumerism, isolation and antisemitism. The stories of Tamar, Ruth and Jacob are woven together with intimate and everyday objects such as Israeli fruit boxes with the discarded belongings of my children infused with thread, staples and paint. Physical objects and stories from the Torah are ignited in the female form, revealing a simultaneously sacred and threatened identity landscape.
