The art I make today is fueled by my experiences growing up with two countries and two cultures. My father Black-American, my mother an Israeli. At age 9 my family moved from San Francisco to Israel. Eight years later, at 17, we moved back to a small town in Massachusetts. At the center of my work are questions about social groupings and the fluctuating vulnerability and security that the group experience creates. My images are drawn from groups of people, herds of animals, patterns, rhythm and movement: within a crowd, momentum builds as it cancels out the individual and takes on a life of its own. I garner my imagery from mass media, TV and print. I also often work with found and original photos. My imagery is recycled and manipulated to the extent that its origins become unrecognizable, allowing me to explore issues of authenticity. My recent body of work incorporates large format black & white prints of manipulated images, a wallpaper project (a selected area in the room covered from floor to ceiling with my wall paper), discrete objects (individual crowd members mounted onto board, placed around the room, which, in turn constitute a new group). My work has been veering towards a sense of hysteria, rather than calm. Recently I collaborated with an American Dutch based visual artist on an audio/ video project titled - the Expanding mall; two separate video projections which overlap in the course of their rotation around the gallery walls. A series of global landscapes from the far corners of the earth, while animated figures hover, twirl and fall against this expanding mall. The Expanding mall is hosted and sponsored by Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, the Netherlands. KD 2008