The contemporary artist András Böröcz has created a series of wood sculptures related to the festival of Purim. He became fascinated with the grogger, a hand-held noisemaker used in the synagogue during the reading of the Book of Esther to blot out the name of the villain, Haman. In some Jewish communities, people write Haman’s name on the soles of their shoes in order to stamp it out whenever it is mentioned. Böröcz’s mechanical shoe-stomping apparatus makes the requisite noise when the handle is cranked.