{"id":33045,"date":"2019-10-05T01:56:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T05:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=33045"},"modified":"2019-08-31T10:05:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T14:05:57","slug":"the-tapestry-of-light-part-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2019\/10\/05\/the-tapestry-of-light-part-five\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tapestry of Light&#8211; Part Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>It was apparently John Muir, who said words to the effect of: \u2018we look at life from the back side of the tapestry. Ordinarily, what we see is loose threads, knots and dangling things. But occasionally the light comes through the tapestry and we see the larger design of darks and lights woven together.\u2019  Here is sample of what the back side of a portion of Irene\u2019s tapestry looks like under a certain light. The goal in part seems to have been making the tapestry itself a bearer of light, not merely a reflector of it.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/2019-08-29-09.19.45.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/2019-08-29-09.19.45-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33054\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Irene Barberis had to work for 20 years to do this project on Revelation, and here are some shots from her studio in Australia as she story boarded things, and practiced drawing images\u2026. as well as experimented with black or ultra violet light on previous Revelation tapestry images.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/2019-08-29-09.08.07.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/2019-08-29-09.08.07-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33075\"><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/2019-08-29-09.17.12.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/2019-08-29-09.17.12-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33057\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/2019-08-29-09.11.17-e1567260149116.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/2019-08-29-09.11.17-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33060\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/2019-08-29-09.15.56.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/2019-08-29-09.15.56-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33063\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/2019-08-29-09.21.09.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/2019-08-29-09.21.09-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33066\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is Irene\u2019s own color-coded Bible opened to the book of Revelation.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/2019-08-29-09.13.36-e1567260262952.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/2019-08-29-09.13.36-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33069\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/2019-08-29-09.11.13-e1567260305871.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2019\/10\/2019-08-29-09.11.13-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33072\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was apparently John Muir, who said words to the effect of: \u2018we look at life from the back side of the tapestry. 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