Art installation examines impulse to save and dispose
In a small, nondescript room tucked away on the ninth floor of an out-of-use office building in Crystal City, artist Rachel Farbiarz has tugged the ancient concept of genizah into the 21st century. In so doing, she found a temporary place for mountains of papers that have overwhelmed her life - from old elementary school report cards to letters never sent to ubiquitous certificates of merit and half-done to-do lists,…