Meet Chana
I am a Jewish artist and speech therapist whose work is rooted in the spaces between language - where memory, gaze, and legacy quietly reside. My clinical experience helping adults in reclaiming communication and connection has shaped a practice of deep listening and attunement to what remains unspoken. This same sensitivity deeply informs my artistic process.
As the daughter of Iranian Jewish immigrants who fled the Revolution, I carry the textures of a homeland I have never seen but profoundly feel - its warmth, longing, and layered cultural memory. An extension of my ultimate longing for Israel, where scattered threads of faith, history, and identity are woven together. My spiritual path is grounded in Chabad philosophy, which shapes my worldview through a lens of divine purpose, presence, and the soul embedded in all things.
My paintings live in the layered space between cultures, between silence and voice, exile and belonging. They are shaped by Chassidic thought - the belief that the physical holds divine potential, that what is hidden is often most holy, and that even fragmentation can reveal truth. Through color and form, I explore themes of identity, memory, belonging, and the sacred beauty that lives just beneath the surface.