The making of – Stations of Hope
Embroidered Words
I started to sew small linen pieces and have words embroidered on them. This process helped me prepare to work on the dark subject of sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church.
On my trips home to Ireland to visit my parents I would take my work with me. My father asked me what I was doing with these and I told him I didn't know yet. He said," Well, I hope there's big money for little linen squares in Los Angeles!"
October 29 2008 - A full year and a half before I started building the glass confessional in 2010, I was contemplating the idea through these small linen pieces.
Making The Stations
I wanted to have lights behind the linen pieces pulsing like a heart beat or candle light
Designing how the mechanism would work for controlling the lights that would shine through the linen pieces.
Art opening at Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University. Photo: Monica Orozco