b. 1960
Born: Transylvania, Rumania
Active Ceramist: from childhood… professionally 40 years
Mentor/s: Maud Friedland was my 12th grade ceramics teacher at “Wizo France” in Tel Aviv
Why Clay?
At the sculpture workshop in the Art School in Oradea, Romania, when I was 11 years old, there were wonderful sculpture pedestals and a large “pool” filled with lumpy, muddy clay soil from which we hauled up the material needed for the sculpture lessons. The “worthy” material was of course waiting in the far corner and less accessible. There I would leap more than once, sinking up to my ankles in the cold mud and pulling out the necessary amount. This physical experience was imprinted on me. The clay speaks to me body.
What do I want to convey?
Every time the story that the material wants to reveal, if not so, I have no interest in it
What characterizes my work process?
My work processes are slow and very, very long, with precise experience/accord terms that lack accurate visibility. The work/thing in its final appearance is revealed, crystallized and made accurate through exploratory dialogue, negotiation and especially with attention paid to material, action and form
My tools of choice… Can’t create without them:
A non-jagged sharp tipped kitchen knife
Absolutely necessary in my working environment:
Reasonable order
