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Beginning this Sunday, St. Dunstan's will feature one of Erica Grimm's "Our Father" series 4 colour etchings each week in our sanctuary. The whole series is a meditation on the Lord's Prayer inspired by the ministry of Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II. Together they represent a plea for peace between nations, and within human hearts. Each print images the contradictions between the ways of peace and the ways of war. From the artist, "My prayer was, and is, that the global collective commons would choose ‘breaking of bread’’ and ‘beating swords into plowshares’ over war.
Featured Artwork Schedule:
Second Sunday in Lent (March 1): Sign of Contradiction juxtaposes the sign of the cross over the sign of the mushroom cloud of nuclear war. Note that the cross strips/dilutes the bomb blast power)
Third Sunday in Lent (March 8): Paschal Mystery/Daily Bread juxtaposes eucharistic hands breaking bread against a background of war machines
Fourth Sunday in Lent (March 15): Forgive Us As We Forgive shows Karol Wojtyla embracing and forgiving Mehmet Ali Agca who had tried to stab him. See also the swords being beaten into plowshares on the horizontal crossbar of the red cross
Fifth Sunday in Lent (March 22): Kingdom Power and Glory shows the risen Christ breaking through the confines of the tomb.
They were commissioned in 1983 by the Assiniboia Gallery, presented to Pope John Paul II when he visited Canada, and prints from the edition are all over Canada, in the US and beyond including the Vactican Contemporary Art collection.