Artist's Statement

Michele I. Arazi

HOMESTEAD

"The homestead principle is the principle by which one gains ownership of an unowned natural resource by performing an act of original appropriation"

APPROPRIATE

"Appropriation could be enacted by putting an unowned resource to active use, joining it with previously acquired property, or by marking it as owned"

LOCALE

I made these pictures in Jewish localities in the West Bank, locales known as settlements