Cut-And-Paste Religious Rewritings by By Meg Hitchcock brooklyn, new york artist meg hitchcock weaves together spiritual traditions by cutting away from religious texts letter by letter, then placing these characters by hand in a swirling combination of characters creating the words of other holy books. hitchcock was raised as a fundamentalist christian and now does not identify with religious learnings. through her work, the artist celebrates all religions and the human need for transcendence— to reach outside of oneself for a connectedness with ‘the other’. through her works hitchcock feels she honors this timeless urge in humanity by uniting various faith systems through art, raising both religions by making art from their only actualized form. the artist says of her work, ‘I incorporate and ‘cross-pollinate’ the sacred writings of all spiritual traditions, suggesting that all religions derive from the same source, and are sustained in the same unwavering faith.’ [via Design Boom]
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Cut-And-Paste Religious Rewritings by By Meg Hitchcock brooklyn, new york artist meg hitchcock weaves together spiritual traditions by cutting away from religious texts letter by letter, then placing these characters by hand in a swirling combination of characters creating the words of other holy books. hitchcock was raised as a fundamentalist christian and now does not identify with religious learnings. through her work, the artist celebrates all religions and the human need for transcendence— to reach outside of oneself for a connectedness with ‘the other’. through her works hitchcock feels she honors this timeless urge in humanity by uniting various faith systems through art, raising both religions by making art from their only actualized form. the artist says of her work, ‘I incorporate and ‘cross-pollinate’ the sacred writings of all spiritual traditions, suggesting that all religions derive from the same source, and are sustained in the same unwavering faith.’ [via Design Boom]
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Cut-And-Paste Religious Rewritings by By Meg Hitchcock

brooklyn, new york artist meg hitchcock weaves together spiritual traditions by cutting away from religious texts letter by letter, 
then placing these characters by hand in a swirling combination of characters creating the words of other holy books. hitchcock was 
raised as a fundamentalist christian and now does not identify with religious learnings. through her work, the artist celebrates all religions 
and the human need for transcendence— to reach outside of oneself for a connectedness with ‘the other’. through her works hitchcock 
feels she honors this timeless urge in humanity by uniting various faith systems through art, raising both religions by making art 
from their only actualized form. the artist says of her work, ‘I incorporate and ‘cross-pollinate’ the sacred writings of all spiritual 
traditions, suggesting that all religions derive from the same source, and are sustained in the same unwavering faith.’

[via Design Boom]

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