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spiritual objects as data collectors.
scientific process as prayer.

 Amulets

Post-Roe Protection Amulets
Heaven as a curtain pulled back
Amulet for Living in the Belly of a Whale
I WAKE TO FEEL TEETH SPLITTING OPEN

Ritual

Migration
Without Ceasing
Tashlich
Mezuzah I
Rabbit Rabbit
Geologies of Loss
Four Preceding Sundays

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Premonition
In Exchange for Something
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Migration
25”x12”x8”
wood, welding rod, keys to my mother’s house and my father’s house
2025

Hundreds of years ago legend says Jewish rulers used deer to communicate between kingdoms. A deer would be born in the south kingdom, then raised in the north. When the northern ruler wanted to send a message they would simply let the deer go home.

Premonition
Dimensions variable
plastic bag, gouache, thread, electric fan.
2025

Heat, omens, and what birds know.

Without Ceasing
1:32
machine knitting, video
2025

Without Ceasing knits traditional text into an infinite loop of language. The process of reading becomes a ritual, as the book can be turned over and over endlessly in ones’ hands. This cyclical nature attempts to capture grief as a tactile and nonlinear experience. The piece can be read starting at any point and for any amount of time. 


Post-Roe Protection Amulets
Each 2”x5”
norgestimate (birth control), thread, beads, lace
2023


This work deals with the sanctification of time in relation to my body and the world. My identity as a Jewish woman factors heavily into these explorations. My pieces are memorykeepers and documentarians, baring my body, my rituals, and my mind. I have been making amulets out of felt and birth control, creating forms based on Jewish devotional objects from the 19th and 20th centuries. In Jewish tradition, amulets are primarily used to shield pregnant people and young children from vengeful Lilith, the baby-killer. In a contemporary twist, my amulets protect a person’s right to choose (or not choose) pregnancy, serving as talismans for this post-Roe world.

Taschlich: A Yom Kippur Ritual
2:13
tulle, thread, stones
2023

Tashlich, which translates to “casting off” is a ritual performed on Yom Kippur. In honor of the new year one throws small stones into a moving body of water, cleansing themselves of the previous months.

Heaven as a curtain pulled back
8”x11”x2”
handmade paper, brass hinges
2024

Mezuzah I: Devotion As Stain
6”x2”x1”
balsa wood, paper, prayer, lipstick, video
2024
Rabbit Rabbit
8”x3”x1”
handmade paper clay, candle, flame
2024
Amulet for Living in the Belly of a Whale
9.5”x4.5”
aluminium repoussé
2024
Geologies of Loss
printable zine, poems, point shapefiles from MassGIS Repository
2023


A zine map of poems, translations, legends (of all types) and place-based memory. Each “Homegoing” Poem utilizes the same set of surficial geology legend symbols and each symbol is affiliated with a word or phrase. The presence and absence of certain geological features therefore “write” the poems of the landscape.