The project · 2025–ongoing
My Beautiful People
Exploring the heart of conflict through art and stories.
I'm a Romani artist, from a community with no history of war. I'm turning toward the Israeli–Palestinian conflict to understand what drives human struggle — and my vantage point, as a member of a stateless nation, is an outside one.
Through interviews with people from Israel, Palestine, and their communities around the world, I explore the texture of daily life — food, fashion, traditions, beliefs, faith. The conversations hold up what makes each culture its own, and what all of us share underneath it: resilience, grief, and hope.
I'm drawn to how power moves between people — leading, following, watching — and how those same dynamics shape a conflict, pulled at by alienation, consumerism, and the weight of history. Out of the conversations come paintings, photographs, and staged collaborations. That is the work you see here.
From the study
"Through Cosmic Monism, Dualism, and Pluralism, my artwork will explore how dominant, submissive, and observational power dynamics emerge and shift in conflict. These internal and external dynamics may be shaped by alienation, consumerism, and historical experiences."
An invitation
This is a collaborative endeavor.
I invite visual artists, writers, videographers, dancers, musicians, and visionaries to join me. If the work speaks to you, write to me.
Contributors
Jennileen Joseph, Rosa Blumenfeld-Romero, Zitha Ristić, Adriana Agudelo, Jorge Eliecer, Flor de Maria. Every one of them poured passion, creativity, and support into this vision.
