ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Cities have grown far away from Nature.
Life in the city has become cold.
I have chosen to create a "field Keeper" portrait, for us to remember that we are children of Nature and we will go back to the soil one day, all of us wherever we are.

AUTHOR
Deborah Sfez is an Israeli artist born in 1964, now working in Israel and Ivory Coast, focusing on the fields of Photography and Video in all their creative configurations.
She studied French and English Literature in Haifa University, Fashion Design in ESMOD Paris, and Scenery and Costume Design at Rakefet Levi school of Theatre Design in Tel Aviv.
She has been practicing the profession of Fashion Design and Theatre Costume Design for over twenty years before she decided to concentrate exclusively on Art.

Deborah has been exhibiting photography and video works in Israel, France, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy, England and the U.S.A in the last five years, gained acknowledgment and wan several photography and art prizes.

Her work mainly focuses on the ups and downs of the human existence, she talks about the experience of existence, partnership, overcoming a sickness, fear of life, beauty of being a woman and the impossibility of being perfect. Photography, for her, means a creative research. She has started her photography research with a series of hundreds of self portraits in many different characters using heavy make up costumes and wigs to transform her looks. She started, later on, using these various self portraits in a more complex way as a part of larger photography or video Installations including text and sound written and composed by her.

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