How a 200-year-old craft becomes contemporary.
The papercut is one of the oldest Jewish folk arts, and one of the most fragile. Rachel Wittow has spent thirty years keeping it alive — and pushing it somewhere new.
"I cut what I cannot say," she tells us from her Tel Aviv studio. "The blade follows the letter, and the light does the rest."
We talked about lineage, patience, and why a single sheet of paper can hold a prayer.