I am interested in historical objects and their presentation, working within an approach that re-contextualizes and "reframes" our seeing.

Any object can be placed within a museum or gallery context, or within the context of an artist's oeuvre. Place, placement, juxtaposition and labeling, result in a set of narratives and visual realities and languages.

I often work in series. The "Lost Words" series was begun in 1994, the "Tools" series in 2004. These series are about pleasure: the pleasure of discovery and the pleasure of establishing meanings. They are also about connecting to beauty.

Bringing two elements, two realities, two historical objects, together represents a rupture, but also a fulfillment: an expression of languages that were already embedded in their structures. These languages are not only visual but also, to some extent, dramatic and poetic. Actually, it is to the extent that these new objects can establish this disruptive element - which we, for lack of better words, label poetic or dramatic - that they succeed in re-awakening, or accessing, new levels of memory and awareness.

The "Museum of Black Milk" series was begun in 2000, and is about fascist ideology, German cultural traditions, and Jewish history and spirituality. In this series I am exploring how metaphysics and individual suffering, individual fate, interplay and reach a historical manifestation.

Working in series allows for a play on subtle, but ultimately significant, differences. It is a reminder that every instant is the breaking point between the past and the present, and that what might already have been satisfied for us in terms of supposedly objective information, is forced into a moment of forgetting when a new visual experience takes place.