Drawing on imagery that connects to ideas surrounding family, collective memory and abandoned spaces, Goodash creates works with poignant, often haunting juxtapositions. He has developed his own technique by which he collages or draws on a surface and then sets up a photographic composition, a process he calls ‘Photodrawing’. As a soldier during Israel’s 1973 war, Goodash happened upon a photo album in a recently abandoned Egyptian house. The intimate images of the memories and lives of his ‘enemies’ deeply affected him—it inspired years later his ‘Memories’ series in which he collages isolated family photographs onto the barren walls of deserted houses. It is the photographic prints that truly place the work. Goodash has a rare talent for framing and composition, drawing the viewer to the flecks of rust on corrugated iron, or the beauty of the irregular pattern in brickwork.

More recently, Goodash has explored image layering using graphics programs on his computer, giving him greater range and flexibility; one of his aims for this work is to convince people that the computer is “just one more tool that helps you to express a message and not a foolish magic wand that performs tricks!” His works highlight the many layers of human interaction and the echoes we leave in the land and in each others’ lives.

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