This print is one of a group based on the original David Moss Haggadah entitled A Song of David. The 10 plagues are listed, each within a decorative plaque Around each plaque is the appropriate description from Exodus in micrographic lettering. In using an attractive design Moss, "turn[s] the horror of the plagues into a strange and wonderful beauty." The print is shipped flat in a paper folio.

sheet dimensions: height -19 1/4"; width - 13 1/2 "

David Moss has written about this piece:"Over the years, a thread running throughout my work has been an interest in the revival of abandoned, overlooked, or neglected Jewish objects, texts or art forms. I am fascinated by the interplay between old forms and their translation, reinterpretation and transformation into contemporary pieces. The breathing of new life into old forms has been a lifelong artistic obsession. A similar process has been at work in the art of pueblo pottery. Though the creation and decoration of functional pottery has been an uninterrupted process for hundreds of years, it is clear that at a certain point a conscious decision to look back at old forms and designs was made". This Moss design derives from a low-form round bowl he painted with the repeating motif of the shofar. The result is not only a new interpretation of this ancient motif using the language of the pueblo tradition, but also reminds one of the mandala found in Eastern art.

This print is one from of a suite of seven Moss gicleé prints that were based on pottery he had painted. He relates that walking one day in Jerusalem he noticed Hebron pottery being sold at a local nursery. The pottery drew him back to the time he had spent in Santa Fe, New Mexico and the pueblo designs he had seen on the pottery of that area. He began painting the surfaces of the Hebron pots purchased at the nursery using Jewish motifs expressed with pueblo designs and colors. Inspired by his pottery he produced The Pueblo Portfolio in which the gicleé technique brought to his "pueblo" designs the deep intensity and flat surface colors of this printing medium.

The print is numbered, titled and signed in pencil by the artist just below the image. The print will be shipped flat.

Image: diameter - 11" Paper: height - 20"; width - 15"

Love Letters: A Celebration of Jewish Love and Marriage in Words and Images is a book designed by David Moss. In it, he collects images taken from among the many commissioned ketubot that he has illuminated since the late 1960's. Together with each image is the letter that he wrote to the couple for whom the ketubah was intended and a quotation from a Jewish source that Moss matches to the ketubah. The book is marvelously constructed and the ketubot reproductions presented brilliantly. Included with the book in its own folder is a portfolio of seven additional prints, each an illustration of one of the seven wedding blessings. Book and portfolio are housed together in a cloth covered clam shell case. This publication would be a most appropriate gift for an engagement, a wedding or an anniversary.

dimensions of the outer case - 14 3/4" x 10 3/8"x 2"; dimensions of prints - 13" x 9"