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Artist Statement | Creating
the Show | One Year Later
| Ash Wednesday
About theng Date of this
Web Site
The one thing I have always found
interesting about the Christian
observance of Easter is that it's date is decided by lunar correspondence:
the first Sunday after the full moon in April. And so everything
else
surrounding Easter (Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday, Lent, Palm Sunday,
etc) is decided by this connection. How wondrously Pagan!
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Growing up Catholic and going to
a Catholic school, Ash Wednesday and the observance of Lent is something
that has really stuck in my head. (I
detest fish now because I was forced to eat it every Friday —
that's my
story, and I'm sticking to it!) It was definitely an strange experience
walking around all day with ashes on my forehead. (Don't wipe them
off!)
The ashes were made from the leftover palm branches from last Easter
season, and were meant to connect us with the death of Jesus, and
our own "unworthiness."
Well, when I found out that my
solo exhibition was moved because of a
conflict, I was pleased to discover the new dates coincided with
Ash
Wednesday. Despite the normal schedule forngs to be on Thursdays,
I moved the reception to Wednesday for impact. For in this case,
Ash Wednesday became "Flesh to Ashes, and Ashes to Flesh Wednesday"
...where the ashes we see and touch were our own, and our ancestors
before us.
And so this site hasd its
reality on Ash Wednesday, 2002, and the
ashes wait before us all. We wear them not on our foreheads for
all the
world to see, but in our hearts and minds for our own reflection.
They remind of us of who we were, who we are, and who we can become.
They show the worst and best of humanity. They are a symbol for
all those who have died, and all those who will be born again.
Blessed be.
Laura Schmidt
2.13.02
California
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