Realized Art by Effi

Front and back of the canvas, painting and object, childhood and adulthood are physically connected. Exposed seams, edges, support structures, underpainting, sketches, stains, and accumulated layers allow earlier and later states to remain visible at once.

The original fantasy and its present embodiment unfold together through the liberating vulnerability of a dream finally claimed on my own terms.

30 x 39 x 7 inches

Wearables inspired by my original art based of “Adulterated” 26 artworks that explore the classic alphabet blocks but reimagined and for adults.

Adult and Adulterated spelled out with alphabet blocks and adult imagery.

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A plant, a symbol, and the shared roots of stories that shaped centuries. Text, layers, structure, and meaning surfacing behind and because of a humble plant.

This work begins with Euphorbia milii, a plant that carries the historical weight of its common name: the Crown of Thorns. As the primary botanical reference for the most iconic crown in Western art history, this succulent shrub serves as the foundation for an exploration into the shared Jewish roots of a narrative that has shaped centuries of art. A faint face adorned with a thorny crown seeps through from an unseen front, creating a spectral presence reminiscent of the Shroud of Turin. While this figure is traditionally identified by the Latin acronym I.N.R.I. in Western iconography, the text appears here on the raw, reverse side of the canvas in its original Hebrew:

Yeshua HaNotzri Melech HaYehudim. 

‎יֵשׁוּעַ הַנָּצְרִי מֶלֶךְ הַיְּהוּדִים

Seen backwards as it bleeds through the fabric (םיִדוּהְיַה ךְֶלֶמ יִרְצָּנַה עַוּשֵׁי), the inversion emphasizes a "backside" perspective on both the canvas and the narrative’s backstory. These Jewish origins often remain hidden; here they are facing the wall, yet they leave a permanent imprint on the surface of the canvas. Behind a torn section of the painting, a physical plaque bearing the familiar Latin Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum is nailed directly to the internal structure. These layers of language, botany, and structural support converge to transform a botanical study into an investigation of history and material memory, all growing from a humble plant defined by formidable spines and small, delicate flowers.

Mixed media on joined canvases 

The structure of a still life becomes the window through which the painting’s process is visible.

Letters M, N, O, and P added to “Adulterated,” an alphabet series reimagined for adults (with nods to childhood themes).

Each piece is made from two joined canvases, about 12x15 inches, either horizontal or portrait.

Artworks for letters J, K, L added to ‘Adulterated’, alphabet blocks reimagined for adults. 12 done, 14 to go!. Art in progress.

Each work is built from two joined canvases, about 12x15 inches, sometimes horizontal, sometimes portrait, painted in different styles. 12 letters done, 14 to go.

New artworks:

“As The World Turns” invites viewers to look beyond surface impressions into spaces behind and beneath, where secrets and struggles endure out of sight, held in the past and imagined futures.

A postcard-like landscape of the same farmhouse in different seasons is deliberately ruptured and opened, exposing the reverse of the canvas and small green toy soldiers—some locked in battle, others climbing above. Faint traces of another painted scene bleed through from the front, leaving ghostly stains that mark the hidden side as a record of unseen realities. These hidden elements haunt the quiet composition, reminding us that behind every calm façade private histories and conflicts continue, whether remembered, ongoing, or still to come. The work echoes the cycles of the seasons, where change is constant and time repeats, but not everything is visible. The ordinary carries conflict. Some things remain buried in the layers, fought over, hidden in time, or surviving in the spaces behind and beneath.

Title of painting “FOLDED TIME: ENCOUNTERS AND TRANSFORMATIONS”

explores the evolution of female representation. Examine how the female form has been viewed and portrayed across different eras and mediums.

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New work: Curse in Motion