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Jerusalem — View of
the Old City at Twilight (detail)
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Jerusalem is a city of fierce contradictions, a nexus of beauty and fear, bustle and silence, holiness and hatred. Across the centuries prophets and poets, residents and visitors have attempted to make sense — in memoir, poem, prayer, and drawing — of the experience of this most extraordinary of cities.
Margaret Adams Parker has drawn upon her sketches, her memory, and her imagination to embody in visual form her response to the landscapes and people of Jerusalem. She has also found guidance in the written tradition; some of these texts are excerpted here.
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