Jacob El Hanani（生于1947年）出生于摩洛哥的卡萨布兰卡，在以色列长大。他通过一丝不苟地重复微小的标记来制作高度复杂的作品，通常是用墨水在纸或帆布上重复数千次希伯来字母。他画这些图像时不需要放大。最终获得了一件细节非凡的作品，从远处看似乎是一个图案，讲述了时间的流逝以及微观和无限之间的联系。受阿尔布雷希特•杜勒和极简主义的启发，埃尔•哈纳尼实践了古老的微观书法艺术，在这种艺术中，微小的书法字母被反复绘制以创造抽象的设计。犹太文士用这种技术来抄写圣文。埃尔•哈纳尼将他的作品看作这个连续体的一部分，把自己当作手工制作的倡导者。

Jacob El Hanani (b. 1947) was born in Casablanca, Morocco, and was raised in Israel. He produces highly intricate works through the painstaking repetition of miniscule marks, often Hebrew letters repeated thousands of times using ink on paper or canvas. He draws these images without magnification. The end result is a work of extraordinary detail that appears to be a pattern from a distance and speaks of the passage of time and the link between the microscopic and the infinite. Inspired by Albrecht Durer and minimalism, El Hanani practices the ancient art of micrography, in which tiny calligraphic letters are repeatedly drawn to create abstract designs. Jewish scribes used this technique to transcribe holy texts. El Hanani sees his work as part of this continuum and himself as a champion of the handmade.