Thomas Cahill quote from The Gift of the Jews, 2003

The quote is taken from the opening passage of Cahill’s The Gifts of the Jews. It is printed in Paramount in six point sizes and two colors onto kakishibu, a persimmon-washed and smoked handmade paper from the Fuji Paper Mills Cooperative in Tokushima, Japan. The pictographic type setting creates the form of a chalice. The decorative tail piece is a cuneiform symbol for ‘bird’ used in the Classical Sume­rian period (c. 2400 b.c.e.). The kakishibu is mounted onto a larger sheet of light peach-colored Canson Mi-Teintes. Signed by the author. 13 inches by 9.5 inches.