The Diorama
This is a diorama from the City of David called "The First 30 Years." Made from carved balsa blocks, sprigs of plastic trees, and Christmas lights, the diorama was made by James Baxter, who was one of the colony electricians before he died. I love the diorama: it sits in the center of the museum. James told me that making this mini-city was his hobby. He used a clicking wheel to roll up the sides and seams of each building, in order to make it to perfect scale. When you stare down at it, you feel like the weird moon-shape circle with glasses that kids draw, to mean "God." You don't feel like God--just like that orb with glasses in the corner.