In the same way that many disparate elements of a landscape harmonize as one awesome whole, our stories that are very personal come to have a magical quality of embodying universal sentiments. My paintings weave personal narrative and biblical reference to investigate ideas of journeying, discovering, illuminating, and burning away through obstruction to a true essence. Painting is a spiritual act for me; Jewish thought and practice deeply inform my paintings. The exploration of light and dark, calm and frenetic, spiritual beckoning and guardedness all at once mimic the experience of pursuing a relationship with the Divine.