MOUNT SINAI ON ROUTE 43
– From the Shore of the Sea to the Mishkan in Our Hearts
  
I wove this series of ten tapestries on the 3000-year-old story of receiving and accepting the covenant at Mount Sinai in River Forest, a suburban village adjacent to Chicago by the old north-south prairie state highway. I hope that, in addition to contributing to the established beauty of Temple Har Zion located by route 43, the commissioned tapestries, woven in 2019, will serve to memorialize events on and by a mountain in a Middle Eastern desert 3500 years ago and to encourage the ongoing discussion of defining who we aspire to be. 
 
As a color motif, I chose a deep purplish blue to symbolize t’khelet, the blue color mentioned in the Tanakh 49 times, and which we were commanded to use in the tzitzit in the four corners of our prayer garments. I have woven it into all ten tapestries, symbolizing a specific event, object, or concept in each piece, thus making a visual link to the construction of the mishkan, the portable but highly decorated sanctuary that the Israelites carried with them in the wilderness.