Yarden Amir

The Thumbtack is my analog pixel — with it, I create painterly and sculptural images, one pinn at a time. I treat wooden surfaces (whether natural or readymade) through an obsessive layering process involving cork, alloy, and the meticulous hammering of pins.

As a city-dweller drawn to simple, non-industrial ways of life, I explore the tension between the artificial and the organic. My work emerges from a deep connection to slowness and handcraft as an alternative to the accelerating pace of progress. I trace natural imagery through slow, labor-intensive pinwork — forging a world, one pin at a time.

I investigate the gap between two-dimensional and three-dimensional space. Through the depiction of natural forms and elements — those seen from a bird’s-eye view, and at the same time only visible under a microscope — I explore the scale of perception.

Each piece unfolds through a repetitive, intuitive motion, without prior planning. It is born of a constant zooming in and out, between the coarse and the delicate. In the end, a unified result is formed: a single entity composed of thousands of fragments — just like us, in this world.