Looking at your current and past paintings, I get a sense of empowerment for the Jewish community. With this said, your art has created a voice for the Jewish community (past and present) and has generated a sort of memorial to the Jewish Diaspora. Besides art, what is another way you would have liked to do so? (ex. music, film, poetry) and do you think it would have been as successful as your inspirational paintings? Recently I gave a talk at the Jewish Museum of Florida and someone said, “But there is so much more in the paintings then what you’re telling us.” Painting is my job and it is what I do best. If I did something else? I would like to bring more fashion into the painting. I think costume and veneer is a beautiful thing, especially when you begin to strip away the layers. I’m actually doing a lot of that in my new work, “The Great Americans.”

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