First Words: 32" x 65"
Handspun, un-dyed Churro wool
 There
are five books in the Old Testament. Every word has great significance,
and the number and order of words also reveals hidden meaning when carefully
investigated. One of
the simplest levels of analysis is to count the number of words in each
of the book's first sentences. The relevance of this approach is hinted
at in Psalm 119: "The beginning of Your words will give light."The first
sentence in Genesis possesses 7 words; Exodus has got 11; Leviticus has
9; Numbers has 17; and Deuteronomy has 22. The five
stripes in this piece are therefore the same number of inches as words
in these first sentences. The order is not the same, however, as I chose
to arrange the stripes in a way that appealed to my sense of symmetry. |