AND GOD SAID...
Jorge A. Sardiñas, 2000
...a contemplative space consisting of seven painted doors in oil and the form of a cross facing the doors. Doors are invitations; the image of a door is a powerful symbol of the Jubilee throughout the world.
Seven doors were chosen because of the biblical and sacramental significance of the number seven (7).
The doors exult the natural and the supernatural as gifts of the Creator; brush strokes and colors are conveyed in expressionistic manner in order to communicate passion; lines are simple, often gestural and sometimes slow and deliberate. The use of liturgical colors are emphasized because of their symbolic significance in the praying life of the church, particularly the color violet of the seasons of Advent and Lent; seasons of expectation and longing.
The form of a cross (oil on canvas) faces the seven doors with hands extending in the four directions: north, south, east and west. The image of a door is painted at the foot of the cross.
THE DOORS
- Genesis 1:1
In the beginning ...
- Genesis 1:5
God called the light Day and the darkness he called Night ...
- Let the Earth bring forth ... the Four seasons.
- Genesis 1:27
... in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them ...
Genesis 1:31
And God saw everything that He had made, and behold it was very good.
- Incarnation
John 1:14 ... The Word became flesh ...
- Pentecost
- Matrix
Revelations 1:17
Fear Not, I am the first and the last...
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