Meg Hitchcock is a Brooklyn based artist using spiritual text from diverse faiths to create stunningly intricate artworks which seem to distill the essence of spiritual teaching and offer it back visually as a moment of stillness and contemplation.
The patience, tenacity and commitment to finishing these works which sometimes take years, is something I can relate to and find my practice can be mind numbingly difficult yet rapturously rewarding.
“In my creative work I weave together spiritual traditions by cutting up the text of holy books letter by letter and refiguring them to create passages from other holy books. 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.”
Subhan' Allah
'Mundaka Upanishad' 2012 Letters cut from the Koran