Haim Steinbach conceived of this object-based portrait of the Jewish Museum as a repository of Jewish memorial art. The artist selected and arranged six museum collection objects; the handkerchief, which he gave to the museum, belonged to his father and survived the Holocaust. While realizing the work Steinbach stumbled upon an arrangement of five glass bottles in an odds-and-ends shop window. He placed them on his windowsill before including them in the work.