Wafer (COMING SOON!)
Wafer (detail)
Title: Wafer
Artists: John Robertson, Andy Fox, Justin Abbott
Materials: Cement, sand, polyester resin, steel, LEDs
Medium: 3D sculpture
Dimensions: 16 ¼” x 16 ¼” x 5” high sculpture that is on a pedestal 27“ tall.
Weight: Heavy ~ 60 lbs
Additional information: lighted (needs electricity)
Artist Statement:
Redemption is an uneven exchange of that which is cracked and broken for that which whole and perfect. Yet it is through these very cracks that the light shines. Wafer began as the embodiment of a line from a Leonard Cohen song, “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” It references the trade at salvation1, the sacrifice that became our communion2. It recalls mans’ earthly nature3 and at once our separation4 then reunion5 with our Creator. It suggests Christ’s seemingly contradictory nature of mortal and divine6 and thus hints at our glorious transformation at resurrection7.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men. John 1:4
1 ... he was crushed for our iniquities. Isaiah 53:5
2 this is my body… broken for you. 1 Corinthians 11:24
3 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life… Genesis 2:7
4 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. Genesis 3:23
5 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. Matthew 27:51
6 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. John 1:14
7 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead… it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. 1 Corinthians 15:42-44
Artists: John Robertson, Andy Fox, Justin Abbott
Materials: Cement, sand, polyester resin, steel, LEDs
Medium: 3D sculpture
Dimensions: 16 ¼” x 16 ¼” x 5” high sculpture that is on a pedestal 27“ tall.
Weight: Heavy ~ 60 lbs
Additional information: lighted (needs electricity)
Artist Statement:
Redemption is an uneven exchange of that which is cracked and broken for that which whole and perfect. Yet it is through these very cracks that the light shines. Wafer began as the embodiment of a line from a Leonard Cohen song, “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” It references the trade at salvation1, the sacrifice that became our communion2. It recalls mans’ earthly nature3 and at once our separation4 then reunion5 with our Creator. It suggests Christ’s seemingly contradictory nature of mortal and divine6 and thus hints at our glorious transformation at resurrection7.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men. John 1:4
1 ... he was crushed for our iniquities. Isaiah 53:5
2 this is my body… broken for you. 1 Corinthians 11:24
3 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life… Genesis 2:7
4 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. Genesis 3:23
5 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. Matthew 27:51
6 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. John 1:14
7 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead… it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. 1 Corinthians 15:42-44
