IMAGE OF HANNAH & TWYLA AT A CHURCH
Village Church, in Milwaukee, asked if they could use an photo of mine for their Christmas 2005 installation, set up in the altar of the church. It was a picture I took of Hannah and Twyla, asleep on Ben Rogerson's blue couch, after the Chicago Int'l Film Festival concluded, last October. Of course we readily agreed.
Village was Hannah's church growing up (her mother found it because she wanted to baptize Hannah in an agreeable Lutheran congregation) and her father is still very active in the church. We were married there in July 1999, I've been to several Christmas Eve services, and my mother worshipped there for a time—so it holds a special place in my heart, as well.
The picture was used as a "contemporary/symbolic Mary/Mother and Child icon for the season", our friend and curator Carol Zippel told us.
Also, in the 4-week run up to Christmas Eve, there was a version of this picture used as "the blue Madonna" (Advent being blue). Carol told us that the smaller photos on the sides were added throughout the 4 weeks—seven a week as kind of a contemporary Advent calendar.
They reflected the theme of the line of the Magnificat which was focused on each week: 1) conflict and protest, 2) justice, 3) chosen pathways/wilderness, and 4) celebration of women/motherhood.
You can see the photo, tinged into blue, hanging on the blue curtain.
Many thanks to Carol, and she did a great job with the blue tinging as well as the manipulation she applied to the Madonna/Child image, to make it square, enhance the coloration, and flip it on its vertical axis. (My original, here.)
As Hannah told Carol, we are very glad to have been part of the Village Christmas ceremony even though we weren't there in person.
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