the reality of the image but also with what the image cannot image. Wolfson often communicates this key idea through the motif of the veil. There is no naked truth for Wolfson. The truth can never reveal itself as it really is. The truth can only appear to a human being in the form of an image—which is to say, through a veil. The veil, however, always implies a face, something which is veiled, just as that which is veiled, a face, needs the veil to appear at all.
