2020-2022

Drawings and paintings

Covid-related artworks

Segers

“Seger” is the Hebrew word for closure. The time I spent painting each painting more or less corresponds with the three major country-wide COVID-related closures in Israel. I chose to pluralize “seger” as ”segers”, using the English conjugation instead of the correct Hebrew “sgarim” pluralization because I wanted to emphasize my experience as an outsider/newcomer during the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel, far away from my family and friends who I grew up with. Each painting, a self portrait, includes other paintings I have made in the past, including other self portraits, as well as specific objects I have accumulated over the years. The first painting also includes objects belonging to roommates. The second painting includes photos of loved ones. The third painting includes the first painting in its final stages before completion.

The paintings are intentionally relatively large and detailed (compared to much of my work generally) so as to fill up as much of my time as possible in lockdown. So, the act of painting slowly and meticulously is an important part of the body of work. This is not to say that I was constantly painting. For example, from June through October 2020, I didn’t even pick up a paintbrush. There was another month later on that I also did not paint at all. Naturally, the subject of this group documents my (other) main activity for the year, lying around in different areas of my apartment and spending a lot of time by myself. In the series, the paintings become more intimate and comfortable, starting in the living room and moving into my bedroom with the second painting, and this reflects my own acclimation to the extreme situation.

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Zoom

Zoom figure drawings

Quarantine selfies