Traces 2025

A series of works inspired by photos I took on my daily tours and wanderings at Argaman Beach during our stay at the Acre Beach Hotel after evacuating our home in Kibbutz Adamit in October 2023. Every day the strong wind and the tires of the trucks working on the beach left new footprints on the boardwalk and on the sand. Every day a new "picture" was born. I created a collage from the various photographs and printed it on a laser printer and then transferred the image to a wooden board on which I painted and drew, step by step, layer upon layer, alternately adding and sub-structing. In my work, I tend to incorporate images inspired by photographs taken at different places onto the new series, at times, as an independent print and other times as an element of one or several images of the “new” places depicted in the new series: in this series, parts of reservoirs and water towers -two among many- that I have been photographing for years in various localities throughout the Israeli space; a defining aspect of the Zionist iconography of the landscape of the new Jewish land.