"Maker Reliquary" (Masha)

I chose the work named "Maker Reliquary". It is three piece of wood with shears and metal pulleys on it. The artist gave us the feeling of the old thing with dark colors, wax and pretty old metal parts.

I think, that the idea of this installation can be about making something sacred out of something very usual, even of some kind of a routine. The name of the work is helping viewer to connect it with reliquaries which we could see in the christian churches. And the work itself looks similar to those things. When you look at it from the entrance of the hall, you even could confuse it with the church staff. Not only a form of this reminds us of the church, the shears looks like a picture or a statue of a saint.

"Maker Reliquary" by Marianne Lettieri

It seems to me, that it was done by purpose: artist wants to make people think about the routine as about something very special, even sacred. There are several works made in a triptych (the row of three images) way. It is the usual way of putting icons. My thought is (and I told the artist about it), that the next step of special attention to usual things is the special attention to every person. We should think about each person as about something unique and even holy.

This is an example of triptych icon