Mask 1: Assimilate” 🎭 (plastic face mold + horns, flowers, acrylic, photography, digital illustration; 2020)
My new series “Unmasked” will explore a small sampling of the anti-semitism I have encountered in the digital dating world. From the seemingly innocent (”you’re pretty for a jewish girl”), to the ignorant (”do all jews have big noses?”) to the disturbing hateful (“fuck you, kike”), each selected message will manifest itself in a different mask. The mask of the oppressor and the mask of the oppressed. Each hiding its own truth. A stolen memory: We had been instructed to hide, while others’ fear, hatred and bigotry was publicly celebrated. And we still hide, sometimes figuratively behind masks, but many other times behind doors, walls, others words and our own silence. Let us unmask the oppressors so that the oppressed may be free