The photo is of the completed Shalom Tapestry. Each Panel expresses imagery from one of the Psalms. It is worked freehand, each panel allowed to evolve on the canvas rather than being pre-planned. During the months I was doing it, I began to explore colour, shape and image as complementary ways of responding to texts that were throughout that time very significant sources of sustaining and strengthening. In their own unique way the Panels are textile textual exegesis, stitched spirituality, contemplation on canvas, Panels of prayer. Those Psalms are now woven into my remembered experience of lost equilibrium, costly love, and the ache of longing for recovered shalom. In that sense the tapestry is testimony, an icon painted in the threads of my life.
S = Psalm 1
"like trees planted by streams of water…"
h = Psalm 8
"when I consider the heavens…what are human beings that you
care for them?"
a l = Psalm 104
"You stretch out the heavens like a tent…you make springs
gush forth in the valleys…"
o = Psalm 23
"still waters…green pastures…my cup runneth over…
goodness and mercy shall surely follow me..
m = Psalm 121
"I lift my eyes to the hills..where does help come from?"
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