ARISE
REDEMPTION IS HERE
December 13 - 22, 2023
Vaughn-Eames student gallery
Damaris Seda melds drawing, painting, and sculpture to create a body of work that reflects the word of God and her testimony in Jesus. Using hands as her main subject, she demonstrates a relationship that humans were born to have with the Creator, emulating a fraction of God’s majesty. Hands are a universal symbol that shows powerful qualities of connection, revealing emotion through body language and touch. She is inspired by post-impressionism, surrealism, and abstract, allowing the elements of the supernatural to seep in.
As she takes inspiration from the bible and personal moments with God, each medium is presented in figurative and atmospheric settings, combining the earth with the divine, displaying hands in pairs and alone, still and in motion, to echo God’s power. The monochromatic blue is inspired by the inner heat of a fire, a symbol for being refined in His presence, exposing His characteristics that in weakness, strength comes from Him. Her work is a reminder that because of God there is still hope, and it is because of His goodness that keeps redemption alive.
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Colossians 3:1-4
Romans 6:8-11
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you must also consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.