Palm Sunday, 2023

The Things that Make for Peace
Collaborative art by Kateri Gill & Jacob Rowan
Mixed media drawing on paper

“Much is your reading, but not the Word of GOD ,
Much is your building, but not the House of GOD .
Will you build me a house of plaster, with corrugated roofing,
To be filled with a litter of Sunday newspapers?”
—T.S. Eliot, Choruses from the Rock

‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
— Matthew 9:13

In this piece architecture and nature, palm fronds and city gates, verdant green and vibrant crimson are all woven together. Jacob has drawn a seemingly ever rising structure along with radiating shapes suggesting sound or another dimension of space and time. This is juxtaposed with Kateri's organic improvisation of line, shape, and color.