Artist statement

I deconstruct Hebrew letters.

Honestly? I would love to keep it at that. I deconstruct Hebrew letters. That's what I do. And that's all I do, every day, since I'm five years old.

But of course, if someone does the same thing for 35 years (and counting), there is hopefully a reason for their obsession. So here's mine.

But when someone does the same thing for 35 years (and counting), there must be a reason for their obsession. So here's mine.

Our reality is marked by a beautiful and unsettling contrast: the duality between the clear and the obscure, the legible and the illegible, the concrete and the abstract. I feel that everything exists on a spectrum between these opposites. It's in the blurred line between them, at the sweet spot where things start to fall apart but are still within reach, that I find a balance between peace and meaning.

The 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet have been the medium through which countless generations before me have contemplated that very same duality. These letters convey meaning, but they are also more than that. They are the atoms of creation, personalities in their own right. So in my work, I invent nothing. I simply translate an aspect Jewish tradition into my language, which is calligraphy.