Please join us on Friday, November 2, from 11 - Noon, at SOFA Chicago to hear a presentation by the AJF-sponsored speaker, Gerd Rothman. While many of us are familiar with Gerd’s jewelry, he has returned to a form from the past — silver utensils. “I started again in 1998. What inspired me was the discovery of something that is taken for granted in a different context. If you take a cleaned or polished silver item, a silver bowl or cup for example, into your hand, you will leave fingerprints. However, to perceive these fingerprints not as something distracting but as something that is aesthetically pleasing was new. After years, I had again found a way of relating to silver utensils. The prints, which are cast in silver, are fitted and soldered into the utensil.”