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Speak, Lord, your servant is listening Etching with aquatint |
Artist Statement: At the beginning of the pandemic the shutdown allowed me time to finish projects that had long languished in the studio. Among them was Speak Lord, your servant is listening, a visual meditation on the calling of the boy Samuel (1 Samuel 3:1-18), a story that I have a loved since I was a girl. I have tried to capture the poignant contrast between the small boy - puzzled by the voice that wakens him - and the cavernous dark of the temple at night. And the lamp in the temple is dim (a reminder of the priest Eli's physical and moral blindness), while the bright halo of light that surrounds Samuel is a token of his selection by God to serve as prophet. Bio: Margaret Adams Parker is an artist and theological educator. Her commissions include sculpture for Virginia Seminary, Duke Divinity School, Washington National Cathedral, and churches across the country. This past Lent her painted Stations of the Cross panels were offered by VTS’ Lifelong Learning as an online resource. A VTS adjunct instructor since 1991, Parker is the co-author, with Ellen Davis, of Who Are You, My Daughter? Reading Ruth through Image and Text and, with Katherine Sonderegger, of Praying the Stations of the Cross – Finding Hope in a Weary Land. |
