Sustenance
These works fuse clay with fabric, wire, and screen-printed Hebrew scripts. Consisting of bonded and reiterated elements, they reflect on the basic human need to connect and nature’s malleable way of reproduction. Clay vessels are emblems of our primal necessities, as containers for carrying food and water. In these distinctive works, they are also carriers and supporters of delicate porcelain parchments inscribed with sacred prayers and cherished handwritten words.
Potent yet delicate these works present ideas of personal, cultural, and historical significance. Relating to my place of origin, Israel, they convey a transcendence of time, evoking the wish to comfort and protect, to nestle and embrace. To keep the perishable timeless.
THE CONGREGATION
Within this artwork fused in clay, glaze and fabric, sits the delicate scrolls of Hebrew script, marking the sacred prayer, Shema-Israel. This prayer is traditionally recited at morning, evening and at the passing of a life.
Clay vessels are emblems of our primal needs, as containers for carrying water or food. In this context, they are also suggestive of human figures, wrapped in a traditional garment, gathering as one in a ceremonial congregation.
THE CONGREGATION conveys a fusion of many disparate elements, clay to fabric, nature to man-made, past to present, frozen moment to eternity.