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Artist Statement


With a frugality of means, in spontaneous activity and ceremonial acts, I seek to engage with my immediate environment, and to find moments of abandon and of connection.

I interact intimately with the specificity of my locale, at a most primary and visceral level, on and through my own body.

The activity is often "nothing special", a framing and heightening of the ordinary.

The earth in my garden, these piles of dry leaves or rotting lemons- these are the kernels of my attachment, the non-heroic materials through which, at any given moment I may discover ways to feel 'at home' in the world.

I perform similar kinds of basic activities in different places, using locally gathered materials. Depending on the context within which they occur ­ the physical, social, historical and personal elements ­ these take on different meaning and reverberations.

Here in Israel ­ in the face of the complexity of entangled issues on land and belonging, I try to touch on the texture of this place on an everyday scale.

My activity, my art practice: local and at the same time with a constant awareness of its relationship to the larger context of our fragile existence here on this planet: with a need to reaffirm the primal facts, to recover perhaps a few of the unraveling threads of our interconnection.

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