My paintings are a living diary. I come to the canvas with questions: where is the pulse in this moment, what is alive between me and what I am looking at, where does desire lead.

I see the world through the lens of portraiture. Whether my subject is a person or a landscape, I approach each as a living entity, with love and curiosity. Small bodily details like hands and feet can carry whole states of being. My work weaves my personal life with Judaism, femininity, and sensuality, with attention to the body as a site of knowledge.

I live and paint in Israel, where the boundary between the personal and the collective feels thin. Everything here is close, familial, raw. My own life carries traces of all of it.

— Safira Klein