The Golden Age of Spain was a reference that I heard often in my childhood. I remember trying to envision this place where great ideas were brought to fruition in courtyards and narrow streets. This image is a tribute to that era.

Images taken from the remaining vestiges of Spanish Synagogues are mixed with the architecture of the streets of today and yesterday. In the center of the image, in purple, within one arch we see what is left of the arch for the Torah scrolls in Cordoba, and we see pillars from the Roman era within another. In yet another archway both text and texture from the Toledo Synagogue are intermingled, and the arches themselves come from the walls of the Toledo Synagogue.

This is where people both great and ordinary worshipped, discussed, walked, and lived.

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