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Still in Translation at Wertheimer Gallery
I am currently part of a group exhibition at Wertheimer Gallery that I find genuinely moving to be in. Still in Translation brings together nine artists living and working in Israel whose practices engage with questions of identity, cultural hybridity, and migration. The premise is one I carry in my own work: identity not as a fixed origin, but as an ongoing process; continuously shaped through memory, movement, and adaptation.
For this show, I am presenting two new works from a series I think of as an in-between; pieces that grew after my solo, where I began adding new elements of illusion and symbolism. They feel like a bridge: not quite the same language as before, not yet the next chapter. That liminal space turned out to be exactly where this exhibition lives.
The show in on view until June 30, visit in person, or online
Quantum Dance — A Collection with Illulian
This collaboration has been one of the most unexpected and rewarding creative conversations of the past year. Together with Illulian, I have developed Quantum Dance ; a collection of luxury hand-knotted rugs that began with a simple question: how do time and light shape perception?
Circles are the grammar of this collection. As primal imprints, they hold continuity through change. We can always return to the original shape as a key to our past, present, and future. Each form testifies to moments where time and circumstance left their mark, translating impact into movement and color. A conscious meditation, guided by geometry and physics, made entirely by hands.
Each work bridges logic and intuition. Where the circle suggests closure, the Art expands the choreography to begin anew.
The collection was shown at Salone del Mobile in Milan; and I am now thrilled to introduce the second model from the series:
Serendipity
Serendipity evolves from the torus; a sacred geometry form that embodies flow and balance. Three interwoven rings echo the cycles of energy moving in and out, symbolizing harmony and continuity. From that concept, the shape evolved through my own experience of harmony: how to create equilibrium where there is no clear path. A sense of relief within. A mind choreography to keep moving.
If you happen to be in Milan, come visit Illulian, or discover online the collection
Unsung — A Commission for Hawaiʻi
Sometimes a commission arrives that asks you to go somewhere you didn’t know you needed to go.
Unsung is a large shaped canvas created for a hospitality project in Hawaiʻi.
Essential yet invisible. Omnipresent yet overlooked. Water moves through everything ; including us. It preceded our existence and will outlast our presence: the primordial force shaping both earth and flesh. We are liquid beings on a liquid planet, bound together in an ancient alchemy governed by natural rhythms and human choices.
To truly encounter water is to discover something beyond the visual, its movement, its pressure, its patient persistence against every boundary. In this dialogue between constraint and flow, new sensations emerge from within and without.
As an architect, water grounds us. As vessels, our bodies are maps of ancient rivers. To encounter water is to encounter a logic older than thought.
This work does not depict water. It seeks to replicate its essential propositions: the tension between containment and release, the dialogue between surface and depth, the way light bends upon a mutable plane.
Don’t look for logic. Accept the flow, respect its nature, and ride along.
A Note from the Studio
There is a particular feeling that arrives mid-season when you look back at what has been made and realize you were living inside something larger than any single project. That is where I find myself now.
The work on water in Hawaiʻi, the rugs that began as a meditation on physics, the two pieces at Wertheimer, the new series I started, none of this felt linear from the inside. It rarely does. But looking at it together, there is a thread.
Rollo May, in The Courage to Create, writes something I return to often:
“The creative process must be explored not as the product of sickness but as representing the highest degree of emotional health, as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.”
I share this not as a lesson, but as a companion thought to everything above. Making is not always graceful. It is sometimes disorienting, sometimes uncomfortable, and almost always uncertain. But it is, I believe, one of the most honest things a person can do with their time.
Thank you for following this work. If you are abroad and cannot visit in person, I hope the images and videos here bring you close.
And if you are near; the doors at Wertheimer are open.
Best,
Jessica
For inquiries about the Quantum Dance collection, Collaboration or commission work, feel free to reply to this email or reach out directly.