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Imago Dei 2: Peacemakers
Imago Dei is Latin for the expression meaning that human beings are created in the Image of God. Therefore it is a form of desecration to harm another human, which is what I wanted to explore with this work. The circle is meant to signify the state of wholeness in which God made us.
As a continuation of that theme, I created another circle quilt, Imago Dei II-Peacemakers. In the center, I made one circle quilt of Christ himself, based on a icon of Jesus Pantocrator at St. Catherine’s Monastery. Then, I made nine other quilts, these depicting various humanitarians of our age who have made significant contributions to furthering peace. These nine quilts surround the image of Christ, in the manner of petals extending from a flower, in accord with Jesus’s prayer” … that we all may be one.” I chose them because they lived in service to others by breaking down the divisions among the human family. The nine figures I chose were Kathe Kollwitz, Rigoberta Menchu, Shirin Ebadi, Maximilian Kolbe, Sok-Hon Ham, Mahatma Ghandi, Abraham Lincoln, Mother Teresa, and Nelson Mandela.
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