I once asked my father what my artist statement should be like, and he said that as a child I watched him building a boat by looking on a YouTube video and that I was now copying him.

I structure my creative process around the essence of printmaking: an original matrix that produces reproductions. I use this as my guide for working in sculpture, performance and video while using the most accessible materials our culture produces. In the global attention economy, the endless flaw of information creates doubt. The print is committed to the exact copy, yet each reproduction must go out into the world and stand on its own. I grew up in Israel and moved to the United States with no plan and no money, only the hope of being an artist. I had to stand on my own.

 

Whether in printmaking, video, or performance, I see how my prints develop into actions, then the actions become more specific. Ultimately, I find myself performing someone else. In this instance, I am copying my mother.
 

I want to understand myself through others, as I don’t know what I’m doing or what I am. Practically, I decided to mimic everything else to find myself inside all of that. My artworks do this by trying to enter the “real” using random, confusing sets of instructions. My work is a platform to reflect upon notions of being a woman today, with its own random, confusing sets of instructions.