The image uses a contemporary menorah as a means of exploring a sense of visual and conceptual balance in the performance of holiday ritual, as well as a more personal resonance that this piece is the design of my father, and that he designed it over several months. It is a triangular object balanced against its forward lean by a single brass leg and candle holder. The asymmetric physical balance and placement suggests a considered intentional weight which is then counterpoised by the continued presence of familiar and stable traditions, even as those traditions may shift over time. The warm, soft light in the scene reinforces the sense that the ritual of lighting candles during Hanukkah exists in quotidian, rather than curated spaces, as does the simple wooden tabletop. The physical act of lighting the menorah year after year also becomes a part of the tradition in and of itself as my father’s labor and craftsmanship in bending the metal is what literally upholds the candles we light.