My name is Shani and I'm an artist and a sculptor from Israel, now living in Vancouver, Canada with the love of my life since 2015. Recently, we welcomed a new member to our team - our beloved baby, who I consider my best (co-) creation yet :)

As a sculptor, I work with various materials, especially those that people consider trash. Creating art fills my life with wonder, though it took me a while to find my way back to it.

Art has always been an important part of my life. Even as a child, you would never seen me without a piece of material in my hands, trying to give it a life of its own. Somehow when choosing a major in college, I chose industrial design over art. However, my works were always much more sculptures than products. I guess that route wasn't quite right for me, but it was a fascinating experience. As they say, Sometimes we take a wrong turn to get to the right place. Searching for my artistic point of view, I explored many styles and techniques- some of them were even edible - but I kept going back to metal wire and paper mache. Eventually, I combined them and they became the foundation of my original sculptures.

My sculptures are all about the lines. I have always been captivated by them. There's something so pure about lines- how so little can do so much. As Picasso said, "If lines and shapes rhyme and come to life, It's like a poem". As I see it, I'm actually drawing in space. There’s a great deal of flexibility in my creative process. I always start by describing my subject, though the lines defining it often take on a life of their own, liberated from any realistic description. That’s what I love about this process: although I know where it starts,

I don’t know where it will take me. Sometimes I feel as if the flowing lines are guiding me, not the other way around. I just let them flow.