Floating around in one of the drawers, I came across a printed leaflet. Can’t remember exactly the purpose of the leaflet-they’re usually solicitations for money-but it featured many pictures of rabbinical trips to Palestine, some of such magnificence that the text was at once forgotten.


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A clip from a testimonial,* signed by appreciative members of an Italian community in 1956. In the subsequent sixty years, note how one of the substances in the black ink has spread out around the signature, giving it a sort of halo. Ink can be funny like that. It’s one of the reasons artists use “archival-quality” materials-the idea is that they ( Read more... )

Drawer 9 has a lot of pretty things like this:


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