My work explores the psychological impact of religion. When I left the church in my early thirties, I began to use my artwork as a commentary on the limitations of a fundamentalist belief system. In my work I have addressed such themes as sin, salvation, and the patriarchal authority of religious traditions. I work with sacred texts, cutting letters from one text to form the writings of another. In one piece I cut letters from the Bible to create a passage from the Koran, in another I cut letters from the Koran to create a passage from the Bhagavad Gita, and so on. This “cross-pollination” of holy books has a larger purpose, suggesting that all sacred writings point toward the same ultimate source, eliminating the need for exclusivity or intervention. In the process of deconstructing and reconstructing sacred texts, I found a way to express a broad interpretation of Scripture that is inclusive of all faiths.

-Meg Hitchcock

www.meghitchcock.com