Artist tries to teach the Bible by ripping it apart

Artist Berenice Rarig plays with anything at hand. Words. Bones. Coffee filters. But her husband’s 1863 family Bible? The Australia-based Presbyterian missionary came across the Bible one day as she was trying to figure out how to start a conversation about religion with professors and fellow students at Perth’s Curtin University of Technology. She held […]

Artist Berenice Rarig plays with anything at hand. Words. Bones. Coffee filters. But her husband’s 1863 family Bible? The Australia-based Presbyterian missionary came across the Bible one day as she was trying to figure out how to start a conversation about religion with professors and fellow students at Perth’s Curtin University of Technology. She held the old Bible in her hand, its leather cover worn from generations of her husband’s family’s hands. How could she make this book precious to her secular friends? She opened the Bible to the beginning, where illuminated letters started the first book, Genesis, the book where God brings order out of chaos. Her hands grasped the gilt-edge pages. And pulled.

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