I am a painter and Cultural Anthropologist living in the Arava Desert in Israel, exploring how humans connect to wilderness.
After more than a decade researching collective memory and human–nature relations, I moved to the desert to be close to the wild. Living in the Arava Desert, I work within a landscape where human presence is fragile and nature leads the conversation.

My practice is rooted in immersion: walking through wadis, sitting with sun and silence, observing how light shapes survival. I explore how we relate to wilderness — the tenderness, the tension, the desire to belong to something larger than ourselves. Through painting, I try to understand what happens when we listen to places that refuse to be controlled.

The desert teaches presence. It asks for attention. In this immersive practice, every artwork becomes a trace of our complex and intimate entanglement with the more-than-human world.

My paintings and drawings emerge from long walks, conversations with desert ecologies, and slow observations of how humans, non-humans, and land shape each other.
I call this practice painting as fieldwork — embodied, relational, and guided by immersion and observation.