Selected exhibitions
Wheat bowl
This work was inspired by a childhood memory of the "Omer" festival in which the first wheat sheafs were gathered from the field.
The work was displayed in the "Bowl fruit bowl" exhibit in the Border Museum - Metula, 2006, and in the Chankin Design Galley - Holon, 2007.
This work is made of white stoneware with colorants.
size: 30*40 cm.
Kiddush goblets
Studying Judaism and understanding its importance, especially to Jews from the Diaspora led me to start creating ritual vessels (Passover plates, Havdala burners, candlesticks, Kiddush goblets etc.).
With these goblets I tried to create something functional and innovative. Each of the goblets symbolizes one of the major events of the jewish life: Birth, Circumcision, Bar-Mitzvah, Marriage, Passover and Kiddush - blessing over the wine.
This work was displayed at the Third Biannual for Ceramics - Erez-Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, 2004, and at the Ben-Uri Gallery - London, 2006.
It is made of cast porcelain, altered and decorated with gold leaves.
Seven pieces, measuring 5*30 cm.
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Birds
This work was displayed in the Ceramica Multiplex - the International Festival of Postmodern Ceramics, Varazdin, Croatia, 2005.
This work is made of white stoneware with colorants.
size: 12*42 cm.
Memory candles
Rabbi Nachman of Brassllow said: "Man is like an onion, you peel him layer by layer and all that is left in the end is a tear".
This work was inspired on one hand by the Jewish tradition of lighting memorial candles after death, and on the other hand by the blossom of the garden onion.
To bring about these ideas into reality, I had envisioned bare porcelain as the best material, made by hundreds of small pinched bowls attached together.
To create the "stems" of the flowers I used black clay as a contrast to the white porcelain.
These pieces are of different shapes and sizes, as well as, different light intensities. They are placed together to represent the different feelings we have about ourselves at different times.
For me, each piece is unique but the combination of them all gives a stronger representation of the ideas I wanted to portray.
The work was presented at the Rothschild Fund Competition of Ceramic Sculpture - Israeli Museum of Photography, Tel Hai, 2001. It was also displayed in the Kastra Art Center, Haifa, 2003.
Habitat
Habitat - in its dictionary definition, is the natural place and conditions of growth for an animal or a plant, or as Tchernechovski stated it in his famous verse "Man is but a mold of the landscape of his homeland".
We, the people of Israel are named 'Sabra' after the prickly pear that was brought over to Israel several centuries ago and acclimatized here. The prickly pear plants also define the boundaries of the
Arab village and symbolize in my eyes the core of our ongoing conflict. I created vessels made of clay using the textures of dry prickly pear leaves. Vessels that are born as pots gradually lose their shape as they grow. They twist and swivel and become more like the landscape they have risen from.
The vessels were hand built of white stoneware with colorants.
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Wishing Tree
My wishing tree is unique.
Instead of the customary tradition of coming to the wishing tree to ask it for protection and well-being, my tree asks us - mankind for safe-keeping and nourishment.
Asks us not to burn it, asks us not to cut it down, asks us to take care of its environment.
This work was displayed in the "Bells of the imagination" exhibition in the Yad B'homer gallery, Haifa, 1999.
It is made of white stoneware with colorants and copper wires.
Size: 50*150cm.
Acid Rain
My concern for ecology touches many aspects of life. I created this work as a response to the global threat of acid rain.
It is trying to show the transition of the rain from white to black while collecting the contamination
from industrial areas.
This work was displayed in the "Hangings" exhibition in the Yad B'homer gallery, Haifa, 1998. It was also displayed in the Kastra Art Center, Haifa, 2003.
The work was made from hundreds of small pieces of porcelain, colored and hanged from a wire net.
Size: 150*260cm.
