Ciborium – Triptych

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Ciborium – Triptych

A modest sculpture with an exalted attitude! A Ciborium is a decorative, luxurious container for the “host” on the altar during Catholic Mass. It made me think about what the ritual luxury might mean about faith, history, doubt, power. How does this fit into the history of the Jesus who served the frailest among us? How does it relate to the socialist Catholic Workers Movement? I have no answers to those questions. But this sumptuous object delights as well as indicts.

This one in the series of Ciborium is peeled open, showing its lowly sources/materials.

[su_box title=”Susan Hensel” box_color=”#2a6bb0″] Susan Hensel is a multidisciplinary artist, with a 50+ year career, who combines a mixed media practice with embroidery across digital and manual platforms. Susan received her BFA from the University of Michigan in 1972 with a double major in painting and sculpture and a concentration in ceramics. With a history, to date, of over 200 exhibitions, more than 30 of them solo, twenty garnering awards. Above all, Hensel’s desire to communicate stories through art continues to be a powerful motivator. Hensel’s artwork is known and collected nationwide, represented in collecting libraries and museums. [/su_box]