Gallery:  Abundance (Passion of the Earth #7)

Art Title:  Abundance

Original fabric art by Melanie Weidner
Created August 2005 - 25 inch diameter
Fabric, thread, mounted on polystyrene

Statement:
Abundance is last in a series of seven images, The Passion of the Earth, a fresh telling of the Creation story.  Using poetry and art, theology and science, the series makes new connections between Christian faith and humanity’s relationship with the Earth.  Abundance illustrates Sr Teresa Jackson's text: 
"Divine tears and anger mix with the scars and blood of a once beautiful, now tortured world.  But God still dances abundance in the cosmos and in the hearts of those who cherish this gift of earth and long for its redemption."

Collection of the Monastery of St Gertrude