Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan

An embroidered binding in purple satin with seed perls and bullion on a copy of The Whole Book of Psalms, London, 1641. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. (8.2 cm. by 5 cm. by 2.5 cm)



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