Persephone & Sephardic Orpheus

Curated by Johannes Böckmann

"Mir-a al ga-ti-ko, ko-mo el es djugeton," (look at the kitten, see how he plays)."

Read more in "Learning Ladino--Then and Now," by Dr. Sarah Zaides

On juxtaposition and off-centering, 2019:

It’s not just an aesthetic “choice”; it does reflect a implicit philosophy: not centered like modernism, as to where there are “ideals” one believes; not post-modernism as to where the ideal is deconstructed; but, “meta-modern” or analytical, in the sense that the ideal is rendered in a context, as adjacent, implied to be amongst others.

The faith in the “painting” as a self-contained “art” is diverted. Instead, painting becomes part of a larger “pattern”: the carpets, fixtures, and life should be; it is all part of a larger “music,” spontaneous, and ongoing—never ending, as with the “lost edges” of my “portraits”