“My current ceramic work has been influenced by the anti-semitic experiences I’ve tolerated throughout my life and a reintroduction to my Judaism while exploring Mellahs in Morocco. Using the language informed by these experiences and my surrounding environment, I create installations and objects which reflect my reality and attend to identity, isolation, place and a connection with others.

My media—compressed earth, brick walls, weathered zellige, ancient and modern pottery—highlights the ‘other’ to author a stylized identity; investigating the relationships between self and place as a way of creating moments of reflection and a sense of belonging.  I aim to create objects that investigate, renew and upend traditional opinions, calling attention to the fraught connections between history and contemporary culture.  As an artist, I create work that revisits my reality, hoping to unburden myself and call the viewers attention to the familiar in an authentic way.” ~ Jonah