"stitches" centers on the crisis in the Middle East.  How can we move forward as Jews, as Arabs, as global citizens, as progressives in a way that brings us together as a global community while maintaining safety for everyone after generations of trauma?  After October 7, I can't do any other work but address this current crisis of antisemitism that is infecting seemingly everything and everybody and the Palestinian horror.  Everything and everybody seems torn apart, in tatters and stitched together.

In stitches, materials from both my family history (Ashkenazi Jew from the Pale of Settlement) and that of diasporic Palestinians, both found and gifted, are stitched together, highlighting our profound connections in all their messy, complicated and tortuous ways.  The stains of the used tableware and napkins, their use and disuse, are on display. Included is a used bedding comforter--what comfort could this item bring now, and to who?  What comfort can we find as spoiled/soiled promises and cumulative rents/tears in the fabric of social responsibility continually charge this appalling situation with its dreadful and long-lasting aftereffects on everyone involved? Can we show that there is more than a binary here? How can we manifest this differently?