Moon-Land

I started working on this project in 2022, inspired by Peter Merom's photo book "Erets Negev," which resonated with childhood memories of a Negev desert travel book by Rina Havron. I scanned "Erets Negev" as both paper and film in high resolution. By layering these scans, I created new images born from the place and my imagination. As a homage to Merom's photo-selling method, some works are mounted on plywood boards of varying thicknesses, creating a new topography. The book cover was also scanned, with its leather-like texture's indentations transformed into elevation lines in the printed depiction, itself becoming a landscape structure. To Merom's photographic gaze, which I intervened in, I added two more perspectives. First, an aerial photo of the Negev from the Geological Institute's website, which I distorted and bent, placing it on a three-dimensional wooden structure. Second, panoramic photos of the moon taken by the Apollo 16 crew, from which I created a new panorama. Each view offers a different spatial mapping, complementing Merom’s photographic mapping. The Negev, a distant periphery when I began this project, became a disaster zone by its conclusion. The images created after October 7, embody the internal changes I experienced and my altered perspective on this land.