The illustration depicts the Song's heroine, reimagined as a pre-colonial Mi'kmaw woman, holding an oil lamp as she wanders through a village of unfamiliar basket-like structures - actually medieval Celtic roundhouses.

Materials: pen and ink, gouache, imitation gold leaf and metallic pen on paper

This is the latest example in a translation, design, and development process that's spanned about a year and a half thus far - it's not perfect, but it's the first one I feel okay about maybe sharing publicly. I'm actually quite happy with how the gold leaf / metallic inks turned out here!

Yikes, I'm sorry you have to put up with these contextless interlocutors who assume that you're reading a Christian Bible and/or seem to be stuck in a literalist hermeneutic. The Torah is a literary treasure trove if approached as such!

Thank you! It's good to be here ☺️