ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By
Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton
Thanksgiving is over, and we are focused on the season of Advent. Our featured work today titled, “
Number 7”, is a series of painted communion wafers mounted on velvet by Grand Rapids-based artist/designer
Jeffrey Augustine Songco. Songco made quite a splash this year at
ArtPrize with “Society of 23's Locker Dressing Room,” a rainbow-colored installation that compared bigotry by Christians to the Ku Klux Klan. Songco uses color to bear messages that celebrate Christianity, diversity, and positivity. No stranger to the ways his religious tradition can be used as a weapon, he can color his work to comfort and to inspire.
Hanging in your entry hall where you’ll see it each time you walk in your door, Jeffrey Augustine Songco’s “Wafers” can be a daily reminder that the oppressed are blessed by Christ (Matthew 5:11-12).
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| Number 7 by Jeffrey Augustine Songco, from the series Wafers 2015 painted communion wafers mounted on velvet 30" x 30" x 1" |
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| Nice Body, Bro! by Jeffrey Augustine Songco |
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| Flag (2017) by Jeffrey Augustine Songco. Communion wafers covered in glitter, cotton, brass. 14.5” x 36” x .5”. |
