My artwork focuses primarily on material significance of mundane objects, my Jewish identity, and connectedness to times or people through storytelling. My artistic methods include acrylic paint on canvas, graphite drawings, and sculpting with papier-mâché, cardboard, clay, yarn, and paper. Usually when I get an idea for a project, I come up with a list of words I associate with a feeling or concept, which often turns into the title of the piece, and figure out what method would work best to tell the story.
Through creating these fourteen pieces, I have examined how my thought processes change over time. The first few pieces I created focused on the past, stationary objects, and memory. My pieces And Their Offerings, What’s in my Bag?, Tachlis, Laundry Day, and All That Shines all focus on objects that hold stories and memories of the past. The next few pieces are rooted in the present, featuring objects with the potential to move in my day-to-day encounters with them, and these pieces preserve my present thoughts. These pieces include See Me How I See Myself, Software, All I Want, Untitled (Doughglobe), and Routine, which focus on my life in the present and often draw influence from imagery directly in my working space. My last few pieces turned towards the future, with mobile and movable objects, and wishful, future- oriented thinking guiding my practice. Included here are Five Names for Soul, Houses in Motion, and Finally, Still Life, which express stories I have yet to experience but hope to do so in the future.