ARTIST STATEMENT

On the surface, life goes on. Status: normal. Beneath the surface, people's conflicting moods are reflected in and by shop windows in the nearly empty streets.

For extended periods of time (between the mid 1990’s and 2001) I lived and worked in Israel. There I became increasingly aware of the ever-shifting range of attitudes and emotions in a country where celebration and hope are often juxtaposed with loss and grief. Future uncertainty was an accepted way of life in the entire region.

These collected photographs of immobile plastic models represent real people, protected only by an illusory veil of weapons, resolve, and diplomacy. They are people determined to live their lives in a place filled with danger and fragmented hope. 

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Click here for Wikipedia article on the Dolphinarium discotheque massacre, June 1, 2001.