BOOK OF PSALMS (I-?)
– The Companion
This poetic book of largely personal prayers, which grew out of the human experience to help us confront the tests of life, moved me long before I encountered Judaism. The tapestries reflect my impulsive responses to verses addressing God. They deal with personal and communal injustice; the hope of reversal of fortune; and praise of God as the comforting Source.
I began working on this ongoing and open-ended series in the first year of my project, and soon it became clear to me how my childhood and later experiences of intensely staring at natural landscapes and light influence how I hear the words of the Psalmist. Thus, the series is organized into subseries according to my technically different expressions of nature.
The tapestries are meant to echo spontaneous and individual prayer uttered in non-liturgical settings. Many are woven in pairs, which underlines the poetic device of parallelism and the structural beauty of Biblical poetry.
