Zecher: memory, trace. Zehoot: identity, oneness. Etzem: essence, object. Pesek: gap, disconnect.

I aim to create an experience just at the border of familiarity and the unknown, placing audiences into my constructed narrative but leaving space for each person to find their own place within it. Self-reflection is a crucial element in both processes of creating my art and viewing it.

My Jewish identity informs and inspires my work and, in turn, my art has become an in-depth exploration of what Jewish identity means. My practice - based in painting, printmaking, installation, and curation - is a search for the right visual language to reflect contemporary Jewish culture.

The Jewish tradition is one of survival, storytelling, and layers of nostalgia. We’re taught from a young age to remember history as though we’ve personally experienced everything that has ever happened to the Jewish people. As such, inheriting memories  - remembering things I never knew to begin with, places I’ve never been and people I’ve never held - is common, if not mandatory. On the other hand, though, Judaism begs us to live new, exciting lives- to do things differently than they’ve ever been done…

It’s strange to be a part and product of an ancient collective identity and also to be my own brand new, original little person all at once, and it has only become more interesting as I’ve begun to explore it through art. I am interested in the dueling notions of collective and personal identity as they relate to the contemporary western Jewish experience and my work has become largely focused in the past, on stories, nostalgia, and especially the concept of memory. I experiment with different visual strategies - use of negative space, distortion, repetition, juxtaposition of detailed renderings and vague abstractions - to replicate the fleeting nature of memory and evoke the feeling of fighting to remember things that are just out of reach.