Where It Started

The first works did not begin with a plan to become a sculptor or an artist.

They began with a need to work with my hands.

After October 7th, during a period when my mind would not stop working, I started collecting metal from combat areas in the Gaza envelope. These were materials that remained in the field — iron, parts, remnants of a broken reality.

At first I wasn't trying to make sculptures. I cut, welded, and built words.

Sentences I heard again and again. Names. Dates. Sentences that stayed in my head and could not find another place to come out.

The first works I placed in the grove at Re'im. Not as works for display, but as small signs within a place that was heavy with memory, loss, and silence.

Over time, the work with iron changed.

The words began turning into lines. The lines began turning into bodies. And the iron — material meant to hold structures — began to hold something else: breath, fear, movement, memory, surrender, fracture, and the attempt to continue.

This is how the artistic language of YOGI METAL ART WORKS was born.

I work primarily with rebar, bending and welding. The sculptures remain minimal: few lines, exposed material, traces of work, and sometimes a small fracture that finds its place within the form.

Today the works are no longer just words left in the field. They are an attempt to give form to what is sometimes hard to say.