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Conjunction 18 x 18" , mixed media on stretched paper
Conjunction: "the act of joining together; union; combination; a word that connects words, phrases or sentences.”
During the process of reading, researching and meditating on the incarnation, I read C.S. Lewis’ The Grand Miracle. He images the incarnation as a diver diving into the water, going down into the pitch-black water, into the mud and slime and back up again to the top, holding the thing he went down to get. Those words along with other research, gave me background for this image.
The symbols of this piece are the gold border representing the purity of God the Father who sent His Son down to unite heaven and earth. The gold stitching starts and ends in the gold border and is both vertical and horizontal, showing that union and that Christ pre-existed with God. The stitching goes down and up and across, all converging into the gold dot, the seed that was conceived by the Holy Spirit as Jesus Christ: “Yahweh is salvation”, “The Anointed One”, “Messiah”, Savior of the world." It also represents the gathering of all the Old Testament prophecies and uniting them with the fulfillment of the New Testament.
I chose to use stitching to unite everything together because to me, that is the intimacy of this piece. When I stitch on paper, I am holding it, turning it, piercing it and making it into something more than just a piece of paper. It is a union of two different natural materials. This could also represent the piercing of Christ who came to die for me.I’m forever grateful for Immanuel, God with us, who is the conjunction of God and man.
John 1:14
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