Borderline

The book is a Xerox work, which is assembled manually. With the move north to Abirim after years of living in an urban environment, I sought to find a way to refer to nature and landscape in my work. During the winter, I began to travel along the northern border of the country. At that time, the Israeli army was still deep in Lebanon. The old border was abandoned. I drove along the border fence and took pictures. I found guard towers, barbed wire fences; the aesthetics of border lines.
At that time, I was experiencing a period of self-doubt and I went to a Jungian chiromancy expert, Katia Culpepper. She does not predict futures, but advises about professional choices. The conversation, which was recorded, was very intense. After years, I found a connection between the lines of the palm and the delineation of territorial borders. At that time, I found a book of chiromancy in Arabic, which contains symbolism from the three monotheistic religions: the Star of David, the cross and the crescent moon. With the book, I did a practice that involved fading: I took a page from the book and left it outside in the sun. I cut out a stencil and placed it on top of the page and the page turned yellow, creating a new hybrid image. I used one of the images on the cover. I presented this work for the first time as part of the exhibition Right-Left (curator: Ruth Direktor, Gordon Gallery, May 1997).