WE’RE DOOOOOOOMED !!
An appliquéd tapestry inspired by the Chaldon Doom painting, created in the 13th century by a travelling monk for St Peter and St Paul’s Church in Surrey.
Dooms were popular visual aids in illiterate medieval England, designed to guide Christians away from sin by contrasting the rewards of Heaven with the torments of Hell.
At the centre is the Ladder of Salvation, where souls either ascend towards heaven or fall into hell. At the top sits Christ within a nimbus, while below, devils torture the damned. The upper panels feature St Michael weighing souls, angels guiding the saved, and a captured devil.
The work bears the inscription ‘Molly me fecit’, Latin for ‘Molly made me’. This phrase follows a medieval convention used by artists and artisans from the 11th century onward to assert authorship.
Materials: Cotton and silk. Most fabrics are recycled or offcuts from other projects, to ensure a sustainability conscious approach. Molly used a mix of natural dyes, including black beans, turmeric and madder, and synthetic dyes to achieve dynamic variation in colour.
Hanging: This hanging has a circa 5cm channel for a rod on the rear. Hanging rod not included, though this can easily be purchased from your local DIY store.
Original, one-of-a-kind work.
Circa 139cms wide x 110cms tall.
About the maker: Molly Lester
Molly’s practice is centralised around the process of myth making and the interpretation and interrelation of history through the objects we leave behind. Through curating archives or assemblages of quilts, ceramic vessels and organic matter Molly weaves fictional histories which playfully blur the lines between the real and the imagined.
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