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Two worlds collide

Pastel on Paper, 30x22 Inches, 2020

While smoking from a city top

Ink on Paper, 2018

Wisdoms of the streets

Oil on Canvas, 2019-20,

Beggars of Mars Bar, 2012, 12x10 inches

In a city where friendships are no longer part of it

On Friendship, 12x6 Inches, Paper Collage, 2018

Longing for a resolution

Vision, Ink on paper, 10x8 inches, 2018

Finding, mental peace

The Burning Bush, Pen on Paper, 9x9 Inches, 2018

"I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he will be cured; when he'd be broke, I'd bring out a different song and immediately he'd receive all the money he needed." John Coltrane

From the Soul, Oil on Canvas, 2016

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Israel was my home

Untitled, Oil on Wood, 20"x16", 2007-09

After years of traveling I came back

Faith, Oil on Canvas, 36”x28”, 2008

I learned that these paintings are a recreation of my ancestors’ memories

Trumpet, Acrylic and Collage on Paper, 12”x20”, 2011

Outsiders, if you will, they are foreign to their own origins

Guitar Player, Oil on Wood, 20"x16", 2009-10

Now they seek to represent a perspective
in contemporary Diaspora

Hesitation, Mixed Media on Paper, 6"X4", 2011

No permanent home, just personal stories
and inspiration of others that I meet on the way

The King's Wedding, Oil on Canvas, 35"X34", 2011

“Four generations lie in this sepulcher,
as poor as the hovel of a water carrier,
and tablets, moss-green tablets,
sing of them in Bedouin prayer.”
-- Isaac Babel, from Red Calvary.

Untitled, Mixed Media on Paper, 6"X4", 2011

“I want to become like one of those who drive through the night with
wild horses, with torches, which like unloosened hair blow in the great wind
of their pursuit.” -- Rainer Maria Rilke from the poem The Boy.

Lev, Oil on Wood, 20"x16", 2010

"Sometimes breathing deep hurts and straight lines divert." -- Loch Hame, from the song Heart and Hand

Untitled, Acrylic on Cement Wall, 15'X4', 2011

"In all my pictures the theme of roots
was always of great importance:
links with family house, childhood, country, Earth."
-- Andrei Tarkovsky, from 'Sculpting in Time'

Untitled, Mixed media on Paper, 9"x6", 2012