Why do I paint Jerusalem? Because it fascinates me.
Why does it? Because within its landscape, in every street, in every corner different languages are spoken, different political, philosophical and religious views are held, people live together with different cultural customs. Thus sometimes these visions transport me into other times and different spaces as if traveling in different dimensions.
Jerusalem, is a micro cosmos in a globalized world which nowadays tries to erase our individuality by selling us the same food, the same furniture and the same images. This Jerusalem is for me a collection of samples of the human threads which are woven together sometimes without even touching each other, sometimes colliding, showing the worst and the best of our selves.
I live and am part of this chaos. In the supermarket, in the bus or in the Old City where we all converge, religious and secular, Muslims, Jews and Christian, in the same geographical point begging the same God for our great and small yearnings.
From this place, I open the veil to that dimension and invite you to enter.
