24 x 36 in., ink and acrylic on paper, 2011.
This was my first non-Jewish ketubah! The bride had seen my project Ketubah – family contracts and asked if I could make her and her fiancé a ketubah for their pending nuptials in the fall. I was extremely flattered and eager for them to love it.
He proposed to her in an apple orchard, a place that was very special to her. Their wedding was in the fall, in a small coffee house in the Brooklyn neighborhood where they live. And they LOVED anything rustic.
Since they were not Jewish or religious in any way, I left religious iconography and references out of the design and text. Instead, I stuck with stylistic and textual influences that were specific to their relationship. Two apple branches stand out against a backdrop of foliage and frame a hand-written text.