2020

Hebrew text

Bereshit

This project deals with the first Parasha of the Torah. The first seven aliyot, public readings, of the torah, are rewritten onto separate sheets of graph paper in the form of different colored squares. There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet. I chose 22 colored markers that could be easily distinguished from each other. This was important to me because I wanted to be able to read the words after I finished the project. From these 22 colors, I assigned each color to a letter based on my personal associations, which is both related to learning English as a baby and learning Hebrew in Jewish day school starting in kindergarten. Some of the letters are not my first choice of association, but my second or third because I didn’t want any of the letters to be too similar in color for the final product. First, I was genuinely interested in how the end product would look, if there would be any shapes or patterns. I also wanted to respectfully challenge the idea that women cannot by scribes for Sefer torah by breaking the rules without actually breaking the rules. So this is why it was important for me to do this project by hand. The squares span 40 across; I chose this number because it is a significant number in Judaism. I chose to do this project on graph paper because I associate graph paper with math and science, which are male dominated fields. What I think is in common between math, science, and Jewish learning is that girls are not actively encouraged to participate to the same degree that boys are, at least in my experience.

Ink on graph paper, 22 x 28cm, July 2019 - February 2020

Jewish Prayers

Using the same key, I embroidered the Jewish prayer for the sick (left) and prayer for the home (below). For this development of the project, in contrast to Bereshit, I chose a traditionally “feminine” medium.

Miss u

Facetiming with safta

Oil pastel on paper, 18x24” (2020)

Protests on Balfour st: Jerusalem signs

Collection of signs, digitally illustrated, from the anti-bibi protests outside the official PM residence in Jerusalem. These are from my photos July 10 - August 1, 2020.

The purpose of this project is to document as many signs as possible, and to treat them as valuable pieces of information- unprompted opinion polls. People are boiling down what they think is most important and putting it on a sign for everyone to see. The idea is to reduce visual chaos by isolating protest signs and making them visually uniform so that the viewer can easily consume many at once.

Zoom figure drawings

A few in-person figure drawings

Pomegranate farm

I volunteered at a pomegranate farm in the desert near Beer Milka for a couple weeks over the summer leading up to Rosh Hashana.

Miscellaneous

drawings and paintings

Commissioned works

Animation