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These works were created on photographic backdrop paper that comes in rolls. This series of banners was created for a tri-annual Presbyterian Women's Conference (1995) and was subsequently installed in different worship spaces. In keeping with the conference theme, which was a multi-ethnic look at the life of Jesus, the designs in the vertical banners were inspired by African textile patterns. While the patterns are authentic, the colors were changed to create a rainbow (from purple to yellow) when the banners were hung together.
The balcony mural is watercolor on paper, using ethnic textile patterns interspersed with scenes from the life of Jesus.
	"Breaking the Chains that Bind" was commissioned by a conference of the World Alliance of Churches, a kind of "Protestant Vatican" who were meeting in Hungary. There was no ventilation in the church, so the piece was made green to provide visual air conditioning. It was accidentally hung upside-down. Following the conference, it was abandoned and cut up for souvenirs.
This piece was created for a conference titled "Equipping the Church for the 21st Century," and is about the importance of teaching the church to listen to the voice of its people. The blue side represents the voice that says the church has to die, the church is too patriarchal to be pastoral. The bright side represents the voice saying Jesus is on our side, the church will never die. The spiral between them has both colors, and embodies the church listening to both parts.