Right now with so much struggle in the world, the losses and harms mounting from climate change and the finding of my complicities in the degradation of humanity, I grapple with if it is enough to just make beautiful art. Does art that quenches my longing to connect through and with beauty help others? Is what I do self-indulgent? What can I create that reveals something new and helpful to the world? 

In the Tekhelet Series, I explore Tekhelet, a sacred sky blue or violet blue color that Ancient Hebrews valued for its connection to the divine. My wonderings in these paintings are about the ways the color I have come to associate with Judaism, spirit and the divine, has also come to be associated with the violence, politics, settlercolonialization, apartheid and genocide by the State of Israel and other nations of Palestine? How can the colors and symbols of Judaism be joined with the colors associated with Palestine and meaning, to create harmony and peace? Justice and repair?