I traveled in traditional settlements and recorded our folk architectural heritage ravished by time, decayed and abandoned. From the balcony of my city home, I looked at our neighbor’s ‘garden’ and saw the small, open unpaved spaces and the balconies with their miserable vines as they try to survive and to remind us of other, better times.

I watched the game tree leaves play with time. Using   the simplest medium, a  pencil and only one color, guided primarily by my heritage as an engraver I drew women – everyday women, mature and young ones, women who carry on their shoulders the burdens of life, family along with  the anticipation of joy. Women living, working, walking alone, their bodies telling us what they feel as mothers, housewives, immigrants, charming creatures. They exude the poetry that is hidden in our everyday life.

The involvement of wood itself as the basic material in my drawings and engraving work is for me of primary importance. I consider drawing and engraving in wood  my heritage and the  best way of expressing myself honestly and fully. They are the medium that helps me capture my thoughts and my emotions.