This is my first series.

It depicts women drawn from Jewish narrative lineages - both dominant figures and those briefly named or left nameless, present only as instruments in the stories of men - are re-entered through the female body. 

 

Across the sequence, the painted body operates as a site of inheritance, presentation, erasure, and interior life, carrying biological and cultural genes that insist on themselves even as they distort, blur, and leak. Figures long contained by narrative return here as bodies marked by inheritance, exposure, and force.

 

The work moves from outer image toward increasingly dense psychic and bodily depths, and in doing so registers a simultaneous stripping-back in my own painting - a gradual relinquishing of decorum, clarity, and distance in favor of damp, unstable, insistent matter that seeks to inquire into the ways biological and cultural transmission lodge themselves in the body, in image, and in consciousness, both individual and collective.