Statement

Displacement and the re-constitution of place are themes that prevail much of my recent work. This interest is predicated on cultural and social questions that arise from my personal experiences as a continuous nomad from one continent to another. My work has been concerned with my relationship to previous homes and cultural atmospheres, and especially to my continuous struggle with political and social schisms centering on both my sexual orientation and Israeli identity. Through these explorations, I attempt to question traditional values towards gender (the machismo), religion, and the notion of the ownership of ones home and land. The materials and media I choose for each work is open, generally being dictated by the concept itself. My most recent work was titled “Make the hairs on your chest grow” in reference to something my brother’s friend had told me when I was a young boy in Israel, and the “mystical” powers of drinking milk. As a reaction, and using myself as object, I produced a series of photographs meant to relay the tension between the Israeli man’s expected machismo, the military and homosexuality. The resultant images are a pathetic attempt at “fitting in”, while at the same time questioning, “can I?” or “should I want to?”