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“How Lucky”

11×14 letterpress poster created with wood type • 2024

John Prine (and, later, he in a duet with Kurt Vile) opens the song “How Lucky” with the line, “Today I walked down the street I used to wander.”

In this print, the namesake lyric from the song bumps up against the line “Mi yanuach umi yanuah” (Who will rest, and who will wander) from Unetaneh Tokef, a poem from Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur liturgy that confronts us with our own morality and our own mortality.

This print is the third in a series exploring Jewish wisdom literature and ethics through the Seven Species. In Jewish mysticism, grapes are associated with tiferet, a value associated with beauty and balance; finding joy in emotional depth.

In this case, we ask: What will our year bring? Will it bring rest or restlessness? How lucky will we be — and how can we find contentment and fulfillment in the unknown?

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