SCULPTURE

Westminster Abby

by Jacob Epstein

1957

Madonna and Child

By Jacob Epstein

1953

Westminster Libraries

"Now owned by The Kings Fund, the Dean’s Mews buildings were formally occupied by the Convent of the Holy Child of Jesus. The sisters had previously occupied cramped accommodation near Marylebone High Street but, needing more space for their teaching activities, they moved here in 1889.

Bombed in the Second World War, the convent commissioned the architect Louis Osman to restore the damaged buildings and also to create the linking bridge across the mews. It was his idea to include a statute of the Madonna and Child “levitating” against the bridge’s façade; the statue to be cast from roofing lead acquired from the bombed building. Osman independently commissioned Jacob Epstein to design the cast for the statue which caused a further artistic controversy.

This was due to people questioning whether it was appropriate for a Jew (Epstein) to create a Christian image and there were also requested alterations to the statue’s faces."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Epstein

LIGHT/DARK

 The darkness cannot impinge upon the light.

Light illumines darkness.

Blake@Union

Jerusalem

Plate 41

 

DEATH

Blog Post: UNLESS I DIE

Charles Williams

"We live each other's death; we die each others life."

Christianity Today

The Region of the Summer Stars is one of two cycles of lyric poetry about King Arthur and the Round Table, and in one poem, “The Founding of the Company,” Williams succinctly explains the relation between community and love:

"The Company’s second mode bore farther
the labour and fruition; it exchanged the proper self
and wherever need was drew breath daily
in another’s place, according to the grace of the Spirit
‘dying each other’s life, living each other’s death’.
Terrible and lovely is the general substitution of Souls
the Flesh-taking ordained for its mortal images
in its first creation, and now in Its sublime self
shows, since It deigned to be dead in the stead of each man"

[Eerdmans, 1974, p. 156].

MARY RUTH

 Mary Ruth Dobbins

Feb 5, 2023

"I am alone"

"Take me home" 

https://youtu.be/ohsCV3YIjv4