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Laurie Alpert
Brookline, MAwww.lauriealpert.com
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These books are based on a recent trip to Israel. While there, I saw the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. I was struck by their beauty and found them visually seductive. I was drawn to the shapes of the fragments, as well as the beauty of the decayed sheets of leather on which they were written. I'm most interested in the Thanksgiving Scrolls which are a collection of songs. My passion for turning my prints into books continues....previous work dealt with the linear quality of music and has now morphed into the linear quality that the texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls present.
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