18   “The feeling we’re entering      an era of prophesies”     2002          
Wood, book, nails          72 x 12 x 4”     

As soon as something of great importance happens anywhere on the world stage, people begin looking back to their favorite soothsayers to find the vague predictions that match the specific event.

After 9/11, the numerologists had a field day, the Nostradamusists raved and mystics everywhere pointed out that the attacks had been predicted.   These paroxysms of prescience usually leave me flat, but this time they resonated just a bit.   Maybe we were entering a foretold era.   I didn’t believe it, but this time, I didn’t just write it off, either.

I think my mother gave me this copy of “The complete prophesies of Nostradamus.”   The piece of wood is a beam from the apartment I was living in NYC at the time of the attacks and the nails were found all around the city.