David and the Assimilated Jew
(Mixed technique)

this creation is a computer creation made out of three different photos. The main photo is a self portrait with a cross, with the statue of David in the background (the photo was taken by a female photographer under my instructions and direction). Once the film was developed I photographed it myself with light sensitive film using candle light and then I added to the photo a special stone called the “Elise Melon” that is quartz based.

The question of my Jewish and Israeli identity has, and always will disturb me, as I see the Jewish people as the people that has brought the greatest progress to this world and had the greatest effect on it - but also brought the greatest evil.

Both statues are lighted by candle light, and they were photographed on sensitive film. This photographed element is one of the few statues I have sculpted, and it appears here in order to show, on the one hand, how different a face can look when viewed in different lighting, an on the other hand, it makes an impossible comparison between the David's sculpture of MICHELANGELO, and my own sculptured face. My image is wearing a cross - the symbol of suffering . (With suffering I have unfinished business as well). This is meant to comment on the hypocrisy of society. Hebrew hypocrisy means both “colored“ and “Hyena” as well as hypocrisy.

These multiple meanings are for me a possible visual composition, thereby creating a paradox or an illusion that everything is either possible or impossible.