2013​

Site-specific installation.

Sapir, Israel.

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This project took place in the Arava Desert in Israel. After visiting local agricultural communities, I was given 150 kg of tomatoes, which I used to create Tomato-Leather — a material made by cooking the tomatoes into a thick sauce and sun-drying it on flat surfaces for a full week in the desert heat.

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Alongside this process, I created a series of nine sculptural signs titled “Signs for the Sun” Each sign was based on the familiar symbols from an air conditioner remote control — icons for cooling, heating, airflow, and temperature regulation. Placing them in the open desert was both a gesture of irony and a playful offering — a quiet joke to the sun, which could not be controlled.