The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.

I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics.

Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.

Someone will say to me, Oh that's so Jewish to interrupt. I say to myself, okay, is that code for you hate Jews? Or am I just being paranoid?

I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoners who'd been tortured using a needle and thread. I know that meeting a Holocaust survivor when I was eight and seeing the tattoo on her arm from her time in the camps influenced my piece about Abu Ghraib.

There are a lot of men with feminine leadership styles and there are a lot of women with masculine leadership styles.

I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.