The seven drawings that comprise Sephirot are a "game piece" that take my ongoing time-based work into an exploration of omer, the seven-week period between Passover and Shavuot. Each week is sequentially represented by a Star of David, containing seven geometric elements. Using events of Jewish concern as a parameter, I created a drawing each day throughout this period. For the duration of the omer I became the proverbial "wandering Jew", and the drawings chronicle my journey. The omer binds the notion of Passover's freedom to Shavuot's practice of ritual. The ritualistic parameters and constraints that I select afford me greater creative freedom.

Sephirot III

1. Mimi Lerner, mezzo soprano, born in the forests of Nazi-occupied Europe
2. Melissa Caruso, curator and co-founder of the Lower East Side club Tonic
3. Marlena Librescu, widow of Holocaust-survivor hero of Virginia Tech massacre
4. Aline Kominsky-Crumb
5. Louise Nevelson
6. Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
7. Madonna as kabbalist