Inside, Out.

Mosaic art is an interdisciplinary art practice that embodies connection, fixing, repair, and reinvention in both process and outcome. I use this practice to understand transient identities through disconnections and brokenness, reattachments and repair. There is value and potential in the broken, the discarded, the obsolete, the destroyed as it is part of nature, of the mutability and ephemerality of life. My visual narratives reflect generational memory and trauma, and the birth politics that have shaped my life.  

Throughout my career, I have struggled to make sense of a need to connect to something invisible and unknown; an attempt to decode my fragmented life through my studio practice. I make work by creating, breaking, deconstructing and recomposing clay shards that are inscribed with names, poems, dates and writings as a part of a multi-faceted process of rebuilding and repairing. It is a way to make order out of destruction and chaos, to make sense of my story of origin, to make a connection between broken parts, my mothers and me.

Identity can be a fragmentary composite of  experiences, memory and of relationships. I take a feminist, relational approach to art-making that is tactile, integrative and improvisational; it is an articulation of transformation through the consideration of separations, displacements, and reconsidered connections.  My studio practice relates to an investigative family journey, displacement, and the historical framing within a post-holocaust community. This process, the art and the writing, is a way I can share knowledge and discover new connections between life and practice.