The Work

I like to work beyond standard expectations of presentation and access. Gouache and graphite suspend the viewer in a place between painting and drawing. The material and structure of my work references the visual plane of a prayer book c.1930, dedicated to orphans, that was hand-made by my grandfather. Various kinds of tape in the work possess their own geometry and metaphor. The work is intentionally frameless, floating, transient .... moving. The importance of language and our responsibility to choose our words carefully is paramount in this work and is expressed in Italian, Latin, and English. 

Postscript: After October 7th my work took a turn. It was the beginning of another Palestinian war conflict.  More specifically, in February, a week before I was to talk on the work, further translation of the prayer book revealed 1948 information from the Vatican, issuing prayers to be recited for peace, orphans, and refugees of the Nakba. That printed ephemera marked the establishment of the Pontifical Mission for Palestine in Beirut.  The work I had started immediately after October 7th, unbeknownst to me, was part of a 75 year period of response to the horrors that moved my grandfather to prayer and me to create a visual language based on bearing witness to genocide.