LamENT
MURAL PROCESS
During the 2022 Lent season, I got the opportunity to dwell on the power and necessity of lamenting through the process-oriented mural, ‘LAMENT’, as part of the Artist in Residence with the Church of the City of New York. Coupled with ‘Race and the Gospel’, a course on racial reconciliation spearheaded by the church, the interlaced visual metaphors, and significance behind the time-based composition kept the work as an active conversation, an exhibited work-in-progress. The beauty of this work was the consistently evolving meaning reflective of the lamenting process itself. As the mural updated weekly the canvas became an embodiment of the ebb of understanding, centering on the season of Lent is both an individual and communal pursuit, a process of being broken to rebuild, testing and endurance, and re-establishing the comfort in the hope of God, it all culminates in the brilliance of the resurrection.
FIELD NOTES
- superimposed cathedral architecture as a symbol of the collective church body
- the new understanding that lamentation is a form of worship
- first mural and largest charcoal drawing
- established new traditions of prayer when starting an artwork
charcoal, conté + spray paint on canvas
18ft. x 6ft.
mural commission | Church of the City, New York Collection
