Israeli Money - One Lavener Shekel: "Rabbi Maimon"
Oil on Canvas, 60” x 48”

I went to Israel when I was twenty-one years old. I learned what ancient meant. I met people living in a Biblical, yet modern desert.  They were religious and cynical; fearless and conflicted, arrogant and humble.  I saw its cities: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa.  I saw its Kibbutzim and its sea. 

The painted lavender atoms imprison the man.  His knowing eyes take me to an ancient reservoir.  I am a time-traveler who has fallen into a portal that I created.  I see a mirrored me: young, hopeful, questioning and not yet knowing each part of me is whole.