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spiritual objects as data collectors.
scientific process as prayer.

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Amulets

Sivlonot for Girls in Love
Apotropaic Scarf
First Quilt for Lot’s Wife
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

Nocturne/Aubade
Transfiguration
Power Games/Games of Loss
Migration
Without Ceasing
Tashlich
Mezuzah I
Rabbit Rabbit
Geologies of Loss
Four Preceding Sundays

Installation

Myths of Permission
Premonition
In Exchange for Something
Blessed Are You
I’ve been trying to reach you

Poetry

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Myths of Permission
36.5”x35” (salt packets)
18”x14”9.5” (light box)
Iodized salt packets, duralar, masonite metal hardware
2026

Sivlonot for Girls in Love
11.5”x12”

Aluminum, steel, carabiners

2026

Apotropaic Scarf
6.5”x76”
Wool, cotton, Talmud Excerpt
2025

First Quilt for Lot’s Wife
11”x16”
salt packets, mirror, metal hardware
2025

Nocturne/Aubade
8.25”x11”x3”
Steel, aluminum, thermochromatic paint, candles, acrylic paint
2026

Power Games/Games of Loss
2.75”x2”x2”
hand carved basswod dreidel with only nuns
2026

Transfiguration (Lamp for Lot’s Wife)
18”x14”x10”
Stiffened muslin, wire, battery, LED, aluminum, mirror, iodized salt
2025

The current passes through the pool and is conducted by the iodized salt, completing the circuit and transforming the sculpture/figure with light.

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.