{"id":847,"date":"2017-01-23T11:05:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T01:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/?p=847"},"modified":"2017-01-24T11:22:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T01:22:16","slug":"journey-to-christmas-geraldine-wheeler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"Journey to Christmas: Geraldine Wheeler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_848\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-848\" class=\"size-full wp-image-848\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/GWheeler.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/GWheeler.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/GWheeler-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;O come, O come, Emmanuel&#8221;, Gouache stencil painting on black paper, 78cm x 72cm<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Artist: Geraldine Wheeler<\/p>\n<p>Artist Statement:<\/p>\n<p>This was a response for Advent 2013 to the Brookfield Centre for Spirituality&#8217;s request for works of visual art on themes relating to John the Baptist&#8217;s call &#8220;Prepare the way of the Lord.&#8221; The work emerged for me as the counterpoint to &#8220;Jesus Falls&#8221; which I did for a Visionaries &#8220;Contemporary Stations of the Cross&#8221; exhibition in St.John&#8217;s Cathedral, 2008. In that, I placed the figure of the fallen Christ in the Queen Street Mall (Albert Street junction), the view looking up the mall. Most of the surrounding people took no notice of the fallen figure, just going their own ways. &#8220;O come, O come&#8230;&#8221; is set looking down the mallfrom the spot where I placed the fallen Christ figure, as I saw the mall in December 2012, with a choir singing Christmas carols. Such a song is a prayer for the place where it is sung and the wider world, &#8220;O come, O come, Emmanuel.&#8221; (<em>See together in Song<\/em> 265.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_881\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-881\" class=\"size-full wp-image-881\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Wheeler_Chi_Flanne_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Wheeler_Chi_Flanne_300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Wheeler_Chi_Flanne_300-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;A Chi-rho page: flannel flowers&#8221;, gouache stencil painting on black paper, 47.5cm x 40.5cm<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_882\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-882\" class=\"size-full wp-image-882\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Wheeler_Chi_jac.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Wheeler_Chi_jac.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Wheeler_Chi_jac-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;A Chi-rho page: jacaranda and poinciana&#8221;, gouache stencil painting on black paper, 47.5cm x 40.5cm<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_882\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-882\" class=\"size-full wp-image-882\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Wheeler_Chi_jac.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Wheeler_Chi_jac.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Wheeler_Chi_jac-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;A Chi-rho page: jacaranda and poinciana&#8221;, gouache stencil painting on black paper, 47.5cm x 40.5cm<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_883\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-883\" class=\"size-full wp-image-883\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Wheeler_Chi_Christmas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Wheeler_Chi_Christmas.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Wheeler_Chi_Christmas-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;A Chi page: Christmas&#8221;, gouache stencil painting on black paper, 47.5cm x 40.5cm<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Geraldine Wheeler Artist Statement: This was a response for Advent 2013 to the Brookfield Centre for Spirituality&#8217;s request for works of visual art on themes relating to John the Baptist&#8217;s call &#8220;Prepare the way of the Lord.&#8221; 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