As a Jew who grew up in Jewish day school and going to Jewish summer camps, we often had lessons about making Judaica objects, or ritual Jewish objects, like shabbos candle stick holders, mezuzahs, tzedakah boxes and challah covers for the sabbath table. I have tried to make paintings about my Jewish identity, but for some reason, it's when I work in 3D, that I get to insert the kind of humor or absurdity that I like to see in my art. Ten years ago I made my first Meowzuzah, which is a mezuzah, or a small vessel for a prayer scroll that you nail to your door jam in a Jewish home or a Jewish building so that you can kiss it on your way in or out, instead of stopping to pray each time. I began making ones shaped like cats so I get to kiss a cat every time I walk in or out of a room.