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My work belongs somewhere between painting and sculpture, between the three-dimensional and the two-dimensional. I deal with combinations in which different components meet: some of the materials used are insignificant, others are loaded with meaning like fragments of the Mishna. A formal relation between the components is revealed, in most cases, accidentally, by using intuition and the choice between them. The combination of materials has developed from a spontaneous choice into conscious decisions on which I based both my main approach and the esthetical credo. For me, this "accidental" meeting between the forms brings to mind the coincidence in the life of man and his destiny, the subject which has been preoccupying me since the days of the Holocaust.
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| I do not believe in pure esthetics disconnected from extra-esthetic contents, but if this seems to be the case, then this vacuum, the emptiness itself - in the absence of any meaning - becomes meaningful, whether consciously or not. Conceptual contents are in fact always extra-esthetical. Extra-esthetical reasons, cultural/social, were behind the evolution of forms in "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" of Picasso, the exhibiting of a urinal by Marcel Duchamp, as they were behind the esthetical approach of the Impressionists. The same goes for various trends in Post-Modernism.
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