My work is an interrogation of identity and complicity, confronting my own past as a reaction to contemporary geopolitical crises. Through intimate monochromatic oil paintings applied thickly onto found wood, delicate, ambiguous scenes emerge, evoking both the distance of memory and the cold glass of the screen. Working primarily from low-res imagery from an online livestream of the Western Wall Plaza, I am able to grapple with my complex relationship with Israel as a young British-Jewish man, exploring the space as both a holy site and a tool for state propaganda, encapsulating the way Jewish identity is co-opted and weaponised by the Israeli State. Alongside these are my woodcuts, drawing from Baumgartner to evoke the digital through painstaking analogue means. These are occasionally incorporated into my paintings, carving directly into the surface of the image, mirroring the layered nature of mediated memory and online surveillance imagery.

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