Jewish Fate

Autobiographical poem written by Jim Dine in the winter of 2013 in Paris, along with 18 images that he drew directly onto lithographic plates using crayon and tusche in July, 2015 at Walla Walla, Washington. The images are of tools, a favorite motif of Dine, and in the poem, he reminisces about his childhood days spent at his grandfather's hardware store in Cincinnati, Ohio. His parents were second-generation immigrants from Eastern Europe and practicing Jews, an identity which is influencial to his art