I live and work outside the center of Israel, a fact which has become a predominant issue in my paintings. The paintings convey that outsiders' perspective by raising questions about a person's place in relation to landscape. As to locations, I choose places which look common and ordinary yet are saturated with conflicting forces not conspicuous to the naked eye. My paintings deal with contemporary issues but are also influenced by tradition, in correspondence with murals and large landscape paintings.
I view landscape as the intersection between the political, economic, social and artistic. I strive to expand the initial act of painting a specific site, hoping that the painting itself would become a site, affecting the viewers’ body due to its physical presence. Most of the my site specific works were painted as a reaction to the site of the gallery or the museum they were exhibited in, raising awareness to the landscape outside of the exhibition space, which the viewer just passed through.
On one hand, the painting is an expanded view of the outside world; on the other hand, it strives for abstraction and flatness. These two forces create fragmentation and tension in the work, creating “Non- Site places" of estrangement and doubt.