Dorit Saphir

“Impression – life, wildlife, landscape” is a series of minimalistic ink sketches on white paper or cardboard. Dorit Sapir extricates images from scenes of daily life. Most of them are captured during her walks along the beach and are documented in photography, while others are restored from memory.

Small moments, fragments of time, transitions that can be defined as “in-between” are given a stage. The works are a testimony to intimate moments of groups, families and friends captured in the public realm – moments that are boiled down to their essence and succinctly translated on to paper. 

Dorit’s academic background and her work in architecture and film influence, whether consciously or sub-consciously, the way she views life in the context it exists in and the relationships that are formed in that space. Film influences her perspective of time, the magic of a moment that passes – a moment that existed yet will no longer return.

The use of ink, a medium that does not enable corrections, dictates movement: These sketches are created in one stroke and create a dialogue between the empty and the occupied, visual fragments in a kind of short film.