There are very few voices in the history of recorded music that carry the kind of raw emotional weight that Al Green’s does. At the peak of his powers in the early 1970s — the era captured in the stunning 1972 performance photograph used to design this mat — Green was operating on a frequency all his own. Four albums in four years that collectively defined what soul music could be — intimate, aching, effortlessly sensual, and yet somehow reaching toward something spiritual all at once. That image of Green at the microphone, hand pressed to his chest, giving everything he has to the song — that’s not a performance, that’s a confession. It’s exactly the energy this mat was built around.

The signed item here is a book page, inscribed by Green with “Love” before his signature — a fitting inscription from a man whose entire artistic identity was built around that single word and every complicated, beautiful thing it contains. This 12×16 inch custom mat frames that signed page within one of the great concert images of the soul era, the precision bevel-cut window drawing your eye directly to Green’s hand and the warmth of that inscription.