art projects
The American Dream
The book "The American Dream" deals with the question of authenticity about the international American dream that comes from films and images of American culture. From wandering through urban spaces, gardens and the "open roads", "evading" the human factor and tinkering with the landscape, within this desolate space, is the tension between dream and reality.
The World of Tolkin
The world of Tolkien describes a journey by an imaginary painter/photographer within Tolkien's expanded world using an oil-colored printing technique. The project consists of images from the Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and from the Lord of the Rings-based computer games.
This project is a one-time, non-receding and is done as part of bezalel studies.
Non Place
"Beauty is not found in the thing itself but in the patterns of the shadows, in the light and the darkness, created between one thing and the next. Similarly the precious stone that shines in the dark will inundate with the light of day it loses its charm, just like beauty cannot exist away from the influence of shadows." - Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, In praise of Shadows.
Attempts at conservation and destruction done on different varieties of orchids express the power and beauty of the living object. The act of conservation - freezing, covering in wax, covering in cement, embalming - these are temporary actions. the images themselves gain the meaning of an additional conservation process that symbolizes the "beauty" in the symbiosis between death and life.
A personal encounter with cancer and with feelings of loss and death, both of the soul and of the body, and coming to terms with the change when the disease returned, led me in my work to go out from the personal to the public sphere. In this temporary space, the individual remains anonymous and devoid of meaning.
The works are created out of the view of a system of growth and co-dependence - similar to the principle of polarity, yin (negative) and yang (positive),that is connected to brightness in the dark, in life and in death, in the heavens and on earth. they do not deal with "this one against that one" but rather are an extension of the correlation between light and shadow, in order to create an " idealization" of beauty.
