by Daniela Améstegui
Presented for the Stott-Bediako Forum
For her final project of her Master’s degree in Theology at Regent College, Daniela Améstegui created a series of designs consisting of nine pieces, representing the liturgical year using patterns, colors and style from the textile art of the Andean region of Bolivia. The purpose of the artwork was the contextualization of an ancient Christian tradition in a Bolivian evangelical context. This project looks into the history and meaning of the liturgical year and highlights key symbols and elements that represent it. Simultaneously, it explores the Andean culture of Bolivia, in particular, their millenary tradition of weaving. It then juxtaposes these two studies and finds the places where similarities and differences can be drawn out, especially notions of time, seasons, festivities, traditions and art. These concepts are creatively translated into a contemporary graphic design medium with visual symbols that become systematic patterns, resembling those found in the textile art of these cultures. Each piece represents each season of the liturgical year: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Pentecost and Ordinary Time.
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…the person in the middle can represent Jesus in the desert going through temptation, or it can represent you, it can represent anyone thinking of having Lent be this moment of really thinking: what is bringing harmony in my life? What is breaking the harmony in my life?
Daniela Améstegui
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