My Story
I have always been fascinated by salt.
Inspired by my grandmother, who made traditional amulets sewing salt into little cotton bags,
I started creating installations made of salt in my early years as a student of art. As an artist I created installations using raw material with a constant aspiration to give it a solid manifestation.
With architecture studies at the Technion in Haifa, a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, and a Master’s in Industrial Design at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, I eventually combined my engineering skills with my artistic talent, alongside a never ending desire to heal our environment. SaltwareDesign was born out of these passions. All my designs are individually hand-crafted in my workshop, surrounded by a Mediterranean garden. My aim is to make artifacts that have a meaning and play a spiritual role in the world. Objects are not just objects. Churchill said “We shape our dwellings and then our dwelling shapes us” – the metaphysical derives from the physical.
SaltwareDesign artifacts are exquisite and of profound spiritual and healing significance.
The groundbreaking technology that allowed my work to form the residual salt into such forms, textures, colors, and shapes is an integral part of my initiative of SaltwareDesign.
In 2015 Professor Daniel Mendler from the Institute of Chemistry at the Hebrew University answered a public call by the Israeli government for a practical solution to handle a vast amount of cooking salt that accumulates as a residue of the Dead Sea mining.
Professor Mendler and his team developed a sustainable technology that turns the salt into robust, 100% green three dimensional object with no synthetic additives, durable to pressure and humidity, and manufactured in a very low energy consumption process.
As a designer, I sought to merge salt’s scientific and technological challenges with its crucial significance in culture and found this life mission in the unique dead sea salts.
