(News from Jono Retallick, Artist in Residence at The Chapel Project)
‘From the Vow Made’
Private view today
Open until 5th June
In Exeter Cathedral
1000 people
have made
1000 beeswax votives
from
locally sourced Devon beeswax
representing
1000 expressions of gratefulness
reinterpreting
medieval practice
Neil and I feel so privileged to have been invited to run this project as it has had such a deep impact on so many people. It is a simple idea that literally recreates the ancient practice that took place in this building prior to the Reformation. Sculpted beeswax objects were brought into the cathedral and suspended as thanks offerings. This idea of pilgrimage has been an element of our work for a long time but is brought into much sharper focus here.
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