SHARED SPACES captures images born out of exile, extermination, and genocide. These consist of invisible and emotional memories carried in the luggage—where the container transports sensations, feelings, scents, and tastes that share space with personal belongings.
After a full professional life as a doctor – with plenty of gallery visits – for the past 15 years I have had the good fortune to paint myself. The first favorites were the American Expressionists and still are. I paint out of desire for color and form and sometimes to comment on the contemporary world.
In my visual world, anything can happen where imagination has no limits. I paint what I have experienced woven into fantasy and illusion. There is the dream, the poetry, the pain, the sadness, the joy, humor and the spiritual.
Watercolor painting came into my life later and gradually claimed a significant place in my heart as a wonderfully rich medium of expression.
