Measuring to a Saint II, 2024
Collagraph prints on Thai kozo with pigment and terra cotta, candle wick, flocking, gold leaf
3000 x 700 x 20mm
Measuring to a Saint II is about a life that once was, or could have been.
In the Catholic Church, votive candles are lit as the physical representation of a prayer for a loved one who has passed or is contending with a foreboding event. In the Middle Ages, candles were created equal to the height of the person remembered or the length of their coffin. Thus ensued the phrase “measuring to a saint”. Like the abbreviated votive candles we light today, the prayer continues as long as the candle burns.
54 collagraph prints traverse the wall, heading in a celestial direction. Alongside is a single wick dotted with press moulded figures, steadily marking time.
The figure is of the mother we were taught to look up to most as children, the Virgin Mary. The Marian statue is pressed in iron-rich terra cotta, akin to the sticky, staining variety of my childhood in South Carolina
Exhibited as part of Homework at Puke Ariki Museum, Ngāmotu, New Plymouth. Curated by:
Collagraph prints on Thai kozo with pigment and terra cotta, candle wick, flocking, gold leaf
3000 x 700 x 20mm
Measuring to a Saint II is about a life that once was, or could have been.
In the Catholic Church, votive candles are lit as the physical representation of a prayer for a loved one who has passed or is contending with a foreboding event. In the Middle Ages, candles were created equal to the height of the person remembered or the length of their coffin. Thus ensued the phrase “measuring to a saint”. Like the abbreviated votive candles we light today, the prayer continues as long as the candle burns.
54 collagraph prints traverse the wall, heading in a celestial direction. Alongside is a single wick dotted with press moulded figures, steadily marking time.
The figure is of the mother we were taught to look up to most as children, the Virgin Mary. The Marian statue is pressed in iron-rich terra cotta, akin to the sticky, staining variety of my childhood in South Carolina
Exhibited as part of Homework at Puke Ariki Museum, Ngāmotu, New Plymouth. Curated by:
