b. 1961
Born: Ashkelon, Israel
Active ceramist: 46 years
Mentor/s: I have no mentors…I am an autodidactic and investigative type.
Why Clay?
Infatuation!
When I was a child, I didn’t know the poem by Nathan Zach:” Every time I fall in love, something in me refuses, that’s my way to warn myself of myself”.
In the house of Aaron Kahanna I met his wife Mida Kahanna who came to Israel from Germany, and in her subtle way she offered me tea in a very thin and colorful teacup. With lots of enthusiasm she showed me a huge kiln in which one can fire ceramics as well as get rid of all kinds of materials, objects and unnecessary things.
What characterizes my work process?
In my first year in Bezalel at the end of the first semester I received a letter from the head of the department Professor Tziona Shimshi. It started thus: “Creation from torment is good in stories”….unfortunately, this early warning and diagnosis did not help.
My tools of choice… Can’t create without them:
First year students. The encounter with “untainted” students without knowledge is a tool which unsettles all my preconceptions and takes me back to the beginnings; young and old from all origins, customs and esthetic values, and above all without any artistic intention.
Absolutely necessary in my working environment?
Oriental music, Arabic Trance
