An art-based research project that unfolded over 13 months, during which I created hundreds of works. I worked every day according to a set of predetermined rules, following the days of my hormonal cycle.

Each day I created two works: a quick drawing in pen and watercolor, completed in a single session, and an accumulative watercolor corresponding to that day in my hormonal cycle. Each day, I returned to the painting associated with that day of the cycle and added a new layer. Two bodies of work developed simultaneously: one consisting of individual daily drawings, and the other of paintings that gradually accumulated layers throughout the project.

The rigid framework I set for myself stood in contrast to a changing body that was beyond my control. Through this daily practice and the accumulation of works, I examined how hormonal cycles, motherhood, moods, and self-criticism shape the process of making, and what emerges when I continue to work even on days when I would not otherwise choose to. The sheer number of works allowed me to consider the project not through a single image chosen to represent it, but through an accumulation of actions, changes, and deviations over time.

The research text Hormonal Medusa, written after the first nine months of the project as my final research paper in the MFA program at the University of Haifa, was published online in Point of View as part of Folds, a collection of art-based academic research by graduates of the University of Haifa’s MFA program.

Read the full text of Hormonal Medusa (Hebrew)