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Sacred Work
Oil on
reclaimed panel and found-glass fragments
Statement:
This piece “Sacred Work” came about in response to the
challenge issued to visually represent women at prayer. As I
was contemplating how to visualize a woman at prayer, I
decided that my mother would be my inspiration and model for
this piece. I chose to portray her busy sewing as she has
taken the ordinary, mundane task of production sewing as an
opportunity to create a regular, distinct, extended prayer
time in her life. Now, each day as she sits down at her sewing
machine to begin working, her task is transformed into sacred
work as she begins to pray. Many people and many situations
get covered in prayer regularly during this time.
Bio:
My name is Sarah Peschell, and I am an artist who is
fascinated by patterns and repetitions—whether in nature or an
urban setting. Patterns tend show up in my photographs and
have become the focus of my work. I also work with re-purposed
materials, incorporating these found objects into my work. I
strive to create work that invites the viewer to stop for a
moment and reconsider the mundane, ordinary objects and see
the beauty in them. I graduated from the Alberta College of
Art + Design in 2012, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in
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