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When I was ten years old, my family discovered that my eyesight was severely impaired by nearsightedness and astigmatism. I could focus on tiny details up close- and so my early childhood was spent inspecting minutiae in the natural world. I know the texture of cedar elm leaves, what dried hackberry shells look like, and how the shafts of certain feathers indent on one side.. What I'm saying is that, by the time I got my first pair of glasses, I was so connected to nature that even now it guides my art and my convictions about life. That's why I love to use gesture and drips- they're based on physics and energy, and they're more fun than anything imaginable. They're natural. Sculpture takes a more important role in my art this year, and is more representative than my paintings. I met a woman in 2017 who told a story of being forced by war to flee her native Ethiopia with her mother and sisters. They walked to Israel to find peace and to make a home. The meaning of that act has stayed with me, and in collaboration with Carol Chanson, works representing the Eve/ Woman's story prototype are coming out of a desire to represent women as we actually are. Sometimes that is beautiful, sometimes not, but always it is rooted in a deeper, more real place than is acknowledged. 
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