By Our Love Image License (John 13:1-17, 31b-35)
By Our Love Image License (John 13:1-17, 31b-35)
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By Our Love
Paper lace over oil paint on golf leaf
By Hannah Garrity
Inspired by John 13:1-17, 31b-35
From our “Seeking” Lent 2023 collection.
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high-res image file formatted for print
high-res image file formatted for web/projection
A PDF of the Artist's statements & scripture reference for the visual
A visio divina Bible Study Guide for you to use this image in a group study session that incorporates the ancient Benedictine spiritual practice of "divine seeing."
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From the artist:
“Yes, they’ll know we are Christians by our love, by our love. Yes, they’ll know we are Christians by our love.”
We know that the disciples and Jesus were constantly on the move, walking from one town to the next. The dust on their feet was surely ever-present. What is the meaning of the foot washing ritual? I find that it is a show of sacrificial love, a show of intimate care. In the art for this week, I visually explore the contrast between the structures of human power and the soft, sacrificial love of God.
Vertical, diagonal, and horizontal lines are found in architecture, in power grids, in city planning. Cold, glossy marble, gold leaf, cavernous ceilings with great height: these are the materials, the lines, of human power. In this image, vertical and diagonal lines place Jesus in a grand throne room. Yet the power he offers on this Maundy Thursday is not a power understood by the cold, sharp, human power exhibited in the architecture.
By leaning down and washing the feet of his disciples, Jesus introduces a curve in the layout. Jesus’ figure kneels over a bowl of water at the top of the stairs. This act of sacrificial love ripples like water through the lives of Jesus’ disciples, from that year to this one. It is organic; it is mysterious. Ripples and edges intersect, expanding outward from the figure. The collision of human and heavenly power exhibits a daily phenomenon. Which power will you choose? Whose feet will you wash?
—Hannah Garrity
Scholtes, Peter. “They’ll know We Are Christians.” © 1966 F.E.L. Publications, assigned to the Lorenz Publishing Company, 1991.
