Selected Works

Botanical Forms begins from a very old Jewish intuition: that Hebrew letters do not only describe creation but take part in making it. In these works, Divine Names become the anatomy of flowers and animals: letters grow as stamens, crowns, petals, vessels, and bodies. The movement runs both ways. A flower could not bloom without the emanation that sustains it, but the Name could not take on a body without the flower. If God is going to be present in the world, then the world has to genuinely exist, and we have to learn to look at it. These pieces ask how an infinite source enters finite forms and how color, sexuality, fragility, and decay answer back.