Safe Keeping

Private collection

‘With Other Eyes', Ruthin Craft Centre, Mission Gallery, Swansea/ Craft in the Bay Cardiff 2018

Acetal, Steel, enamel

H 25-28 x DIA 90-135 mm

A series of boxes, which contain images for safe-keeping, as a testament for our time. The process of capturing images and printing in the form of enamel decals onto my objects is making a record that will endure, as glass and metal will survive for thousands of years.

We are continually exposed through the media to disturbing events around the globe: a daily dose of human suffering, helplessness, and cynical attempts to destroy the remnants of past cultures, paraded before our eyes.

I find myself preoccupied with these events, and my response has been expressed through my work. I feel a need to record elements threatened with destruction through my photography and through the rich collection of photographs and objects of early 20th-century Europe and Palestine that I have inherited from my own family.

More than ever, I am aware that I am extremely fortunate to hold dual nationality and move easily from country to country. Being an immigrant, one’s mind always wanders from one place to the other.

On recent visits, I have taken a series of photographs of the old and new Jerusalem, where I started my life: Jerusalem which encapsulates so much history and conflict.