I am a clay artist and ceramicist, creating decorative objects and works of art.  As a five-year-old child I encountered – and fell in love with – the world of ceramics and clay while visiting a potter’s studio for the first time.  Years later I remembered this initial love and turned it into my own source of activity and of creativity.  Ever since, clay has become a part of my life.

My art is characterized by a particular style derived from pottery, one of the traditional techniques for work in clay.  However, in contrast to traditional ceramicists, the potter’s wheel only serves as the basis for my work.  After creating the desired form, I take the resulting object in its entirety and manipulate it manually; in so doing I disregard the object’s significance and turn it into something new, something of my own.

Having revealed the clay’s potential, I allow it to find expression in the objects I create, while relying on the fact that, in contrast to other creative materials, clay hardly undergoes any processing, so that it is possible to duplicate almost any shape or material.  At the same time, I am fascinated by combining clay with other materials such as iron and copper, and their effect on one another during the process of creativity and their firing in the kiln.

My work is nurtured not only by an ongoing creative dialogue with my clients, with local and international ceramic artists and with artists from other fields such as photography, plastic arts, paper, jewelry, textile, video.  But two of my greatest loves – music and dance, arts that are influenced by the space in which they exist – also find expression in my work, mainly in the large constructions in which I have created clay spaces based on traditional pottery and coiling.  These spaces permitted me and other onlookers to move within them virtually and to be inspired by them.  Because I see my art as activism that calls for social and cultural change, I am also influenced by my environment and by the behavior of human beings in the world of which I too am a part, the world that provides me with the clay with which I create.