About Artist's Work

An infinite anxiety to the well being of your child, along with the fear of hurting him, are the fueling material for the horror at the base of Motherhood, as I perceive it.
Child-Mother relationship is a never ending cycle of emotional turmoil in which anxiety passes from mother to child and vice versa.
These are the materials my work is based on: The thin line which constitutes parenthood – the line between the need to defend one's child, and the danger in the consequences on exerting the parental strength.
It’s not the automatic association of compassion and warmth between parent and child that I find interesting but the other, rather frightening one – the parent-child bond that bears disastrous consequences, the possibility of the gap between mother and child; a gap out of which the mother/parent looms out as a monster.
Using daily scenes I try to encapsulate that monster. It is in mundane scenes, of warmth and closeness that an abyss forms, for all our demons to come out of. It is there that I attempt to capture them, not as a clear presence, but rather as a disturbing possibility, reaching out of everyday scenes, coloring it with disquieting tones and upsetting the outer harmony of this couple: Mother-Child.

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