Location : Israel
The painting and the artwork have been with me since childhood. Only after undergoing a series of surgeries on my back, which kept me doing non-stop treatments, undergoing chronic pain, and in the end, leaving me disabled, I decided to return to this painting. A need that filled my life and relieved my pain, and on the other hand, an alternative; layers of paint that create another existence in the same reality.
In my work, I find the fusion between the real, the surreal, the fantastic and the symbolic as the language of the natural world, a combination of the burdens of truth in the human soul, its reality and its search for the sublime, in the face of human complexity, which, inadvertently creates definitions and layers of filters to the painting acquired throughout its life; The layers of paint on a canvas that express an existential state; life being the example.
Like love versus apathy, like pain versus resignation, such as light and shade against color, this objective confrontation of the human soul, its symbiotic relations with itself coupled with universe and nature, and the beauty in the simplicity of life and the mystery surrounding it, as well as the attempt to decipher it. The material and the infinite nothing - an encounter whose end is shattered and drained into one visual scene.
Each scene is a continuation through the journey of my life, which began in moments of grace. A long and winding journey; tired from illusions leading to different metamorphoses. A journey that begins by planting observation without definitions and filters, and ending with the creation of another honest visual conclusion, one that allows a viewer interpretation to find in it a personal and individual meaning.
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