Rec(k)on, 5878

Rec(k)on engages questions of land, belonging, and responsibility; how we live with the places that hold us, how those places carry our stories/actions, and how we reconcile and repair the impact of decisions and actions by those who inhabited these places before us. In recent work, I braid plants harvested from lands I tend in the United States as a naturalized citizen/settler-colonizer, working in quiet collaboration with a Pear Tree rooted in my yard. These gestures arise from reckoning with my role as both caretaker and inheritor.

Returning to my birthplace and the homeland of my ancestors, I carry this practice as both method and ritual. Israel is a deep taproot of my life, beloved and formative, yet marked by profound grief and ethical rupture. As an Israeli Jew living in diaspora, I move through this terrain holding longing, complicity, and prayer.

This work inhabits the space between reconnaissance and reckoning: learning a place while acknowledging the cost of belonging. Like the mourner who walks against the prescribed flow, I enter carrying loss, seeking a form of witnessing that does not resolve grief, but remains present with it.