Jerusalem – Reality and Memory

“Throughout the years, I painted by way of observing and connecting to a place. I searched for the eternal beauty of the city in its nature, in the wrinkled lines of character rather than in its historical sites. I focused on its slopes, its tangled web, its marks of time and climate that are concealed within the city. I concentrated on the light . . .

In the beginning of the intifada and the accompanying terrorist attacks, I felt threatened even while I was looking out upon a spectacular Jerusalem landscape. Suddenly these landscapes awoke in me hidden memories . . .
The Jerusalem landscapes that I paint lately, are loaded with memories that are hard to evade, they provoke within me a sense of tension, a connection between Jerusalem and Auschwitz, between the present and the past….”