This latest artist statement outlines a framework for the artist who is a jewish man – myself. The historical conflict between avant-garde art and tradition is the foremost among other complexities of our collective past that I seek to harmonize in my current work.
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A Heroic Sort of Journey /
I have felt a sense of chaos and disorder and pain in my life. I produce talismans to help myself with this. These images harness emotion and bring coherence to my fragmented sense of world and self. Today, after many years of working with symbolic images, I have obtained a more clear sense of self – recognizing my Jewish ancestry and ethnic identity. Art is my way of communicating: I want to help transform and develop our collective conversations and impact individual lives, which are interconnected through culture.
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