Power of Words Series
The Power of Words brings together works inspired by Jewish prayers and sacred moments. Using layered text and tactile surfaces, the series explores how ritual language holds grief, gratitude, memory, and faith. The paintings invite viewers to consider prayer as a living presence, one that continues to shape identity, healing, and connection across time.
This painting features the raised Hebrew text of the Mourner’s Kaddish, with a deliberate tear through the surface, echoing the Jewish tradition of kriah, the rending of garments in grief. The exposed wood and back of the canvas are painted gold, revealing the quiet beauty that can exist within loss. Named “Zichrona Livracha”, may her memory be a blessing, this piece honors the tension between pain and reverence, and the light that mourning can uncover.
Shehecheyanu is more than a prayer: it’s a blessing etched in canvas, immortal in sculptural Hebrew, gratitude made physical. This piece holds the Shehecheyanu for every first, every renewal, every quiet miracle. Painted champagne meunier grape buds shimmer with hope, the sweetness of new beginnings, echoing wedding joy, birth, or that quiet moment when art finds its home. Milestones anchor us in sacred time.
Each textured layer offers a gentle invitation: pause, breathe, cross your next threshold. Whether lighting a candle, tasting something long anticipated, or simply showing up bravely: this painting lifts your space, a living meditation for every arrival.
Abundance: today, and always.
The sacred words of Avinu Malkeinu are subtly raised in texture—whispered into the background yet ever-present. This Yom Kippur-inspired piece speaks to the reverence and vulnerability of prayer, capturing the intimate act of connection between the individual and the divine. It is a tribute to the enduring power of sacred words and the physical posture of devotion.
Traditionally associated with peace, the word takes on new life here, not as something passive or hushed, but as something expansive, deliberate, and alive. This piece is a declaration: that peace is not merely the absence of noise or conflict, but a presence that takes up space, demands attention, and radiates with energy and intention.