Itay
Shmueli

My body of work from the past six years began with small, quick sketches derived from observations of the home environment and its inhabitants — mainly my partner and my young son, who was born in 2019. Our confinement at home during the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to a continuous search for simple compositions and situations, resembling stories of everyday life and daily gestures that are given a stage and focus through drawing and sketching. One example is my series of drawings titled "Soothing the Baby." What began as a somewhat amusing way to pass the time while soothing the infant in my arms, through drawing in front of the mirror, evolved into an ongoing body of work where I experiment with a simple, continuous line to capture varying expressions and poses.