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My artwork portrays ordinary objects and scenes encountered in my everyday life at home and during my travels abroad. I search for the beauty and meaning in these subjects, connecting them to my childhood experiences and memories, and to other stories of past, and current experiences of daily life, while exploring themes of domesticity, family, gender, identity, memory, and commemoration.

I often combine my photographs with drawing, old family photos, discovered photographs, and memorabilia into digital collages and photomontages, fusing together images intuitively, to form a diptych strip, or sort of memory flow. These images work together visually in form, color, or composition, creating a new story and new memories. Incorporating embroidery and knitting in my artistic practice, gives my artwork a tactile quality, and connects me to a long history of stereotypical women’s skills and to craft. The color of the thread and yarn I use also has symbolic connotations, such as the yellow-gold representing the color used during the campaign for the women’s suffrage movement in the United States, and the yellow Star-of-David, forced upon European Jews to wear during the Holocaust.

This image making process helps me express my personal history and daily life experiences, and to weave connections to stories of actual events and to create new narratives, thus strengthening my identity and sense of belonging. I find great joy in taking the time to observe and appreciate these everyday subjects. I capture an instant in my life that will never return or that will never be experienced in the same way again, mostly due to my own conscious awareness that death is inevitable, compelling me to value and cherish life. This intense feeling inspires me to preserve the memory of that everyday moment and to commemorate it by celebrating it in my art.