Extraordinary Time II (2002)

 

This work of seven panels sets forth the liturgical seasons interwoven by themes from the natural and mythological year. It re-creates and reworks the designs used in my earlier work, Extraordinary Time. The first six panels -- Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter and Pentecost, and Ordinary Time -- represent liturgical seasons by use of color, objects or symbols particularly associated with them. The seventh panel represents the Future, a time of opening up the cycle to renewal and new possibilities. Horizontally, suggestions of a natural landscape and river continue across the panels. The mythological year is portrayed by the position of the sun, moving into various relationships with the landscape and seasons.

The entire piece constitutes a continuous unfolding of spirit-filled presence in creation, which always anticipates what is to come even as it echoes things that are past. For example, black dominates the Lent panel, but has its beginning in Christmas and trails on in a diminished way through Easter and Pentecost. The flame of the Advent candles becomes full-blown in the flame of Pentecost, which in turn is transformed into the green tree of the Future.

The panels of Advent, Lent, Easter, and Ordinary Time are hand woven in a traditional tapestry technique. The panels of Christmas, Pentecost, and the Future are glass mosaics. Each panel is 15" by 36".

(Click on any panel to see an enlargement.)

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