Faith Art: "A Spiritual House diptych"by Deborah Risa Mrantz

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1 Peter 2:5 - Genesis 28:20-22

A SPIRITUAL HOUSE diptych
~ by Deborah Risa Mrantz

ARTISTS' STATEMENT
Stone, religious construction's first material–used to build Abraham's altar of living stones as the spiritual house of God. A SPIRITUAL HOUSE (diptych) attends to echoing typologies and shared structures between Old and New Testaments. From Jacob’s journey to our present travels we're built into holy habitats–nomadic, Abrahamic essences calling us back through rough building-blocks and excavations of rock. First, best substance in forming individual and communal spiritual histories in tabernacles hewn of our earliest dwellings and devotion to God.

A SPIRITUAL HOUSE diptych realizes moments of quintessential journey–reiterated in palette and set by typographic repetition and insistence. These move us beyond linear language into kairos, becoming of spiritual construction, contemplation, completion. We enter and connect to our faith in all its physicality. Divine work of stone; and work of human hands. God's covenantal meeting places in the spiritual masonry of building as living stones, our houses and dwelling-places of lived faith.

DESCRIPTION
Layered, dimensional typographic design allows Scripture and language to move, setting the stone pillars in the digital laminate to aluminum diptych A SPIRITUAL HOUSE. Typology and typography seamlessly merge while maintaining their covenantal character. Architectural landscapes interiorly engage with intertextual reciprocal, foundational material and motion of living stones–God's house. In this engagement, twin-like pieces inform each other as stanchions of constancy, architecturally solid and in concord. Through scratchy subway quiddities of urban typography, deconstructed visceral and visual landscapes and the brick-laying of language and letterforms, a spiritual house is built. Whether in homeless communities of underground metro or in rarified ethers of wealth, we're invited into this spiritual house of living stones, to enter in devotion.

PROVENANCE
A SPIRITUAL HOUSE (v1). edition (1690) digitally signed, numbered prints; digital laminate to black aluminum. Created in LOGOS DIVINITY™ LLC design studio, Santa Fe New Mexico, DECEMBER 2009. Printed at FIREDRAGON COLOR, Santa Fe New Mexico. Certificate of Authenticity provided with source/origination information on artwork.

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