I’m a painter. My work begins with observing the world around me — but it never ends there. It moves into a space where reality and imagination overlap, shift, and reshape each other. In recent years, I have worked primarily in collage, driven by a love of shapes and colors and the endless interactions between them. My collage is rooted in the world around me, yet remains a play between reality and invention.

My process starts with creating a personal color palette. I paint papers to give them an airy quality, since light and air are, in my eyes, essential for building a new world — a new nature that becomes the painting. Collage is a kind of “dry painting,” a method to explore color and form simultaneously through cutting, assembling, and reconfiguring.

Each painting — whether a portrait, landscape, still life, or variation on a work I love — distills a moment of recognition: when color and shape align into something precise yet unexpected.

“What I do is close my eyes and then open them again. I imagine that I had just been born, just at that moment, that I’m really seeing for the first time ever.”

— Rotem Amizur, The Flatland Artist Book, 2023