Heartfelt waiting: reflecting on the season of Advent
Advent is a Christian season.
It begins four Sundays before Christmas Day.
I felt it should have its own flavour;
a unique reason for being;
a discipline.
However, my experience is that Advent is usurped by Christmas:
the exhausting round of end-of-year functions;
carols celebrating the Christ's birth, not his coming;
merchandising and advertising to encourage a consumer frenzy.
I wanted to encounter a different Advent.
Perhaps experience its true essence.
So I created a series of dolls ...
and I listen to their voice.
It begins four Sundays before Christmas Day.
I felt it should have its own flavour;
a unique reason for being;
a discipline.
However, my experience is that Advent is usurped by Christmas:
the exhausting round of end-of-year functions;
carols celebrating the Christ's birth, not his coming;
merchandising and advertising to encourage a consumer frenzy.
I wanted to encounter a different Advent.
Perhaps experience its true essence.
So I created a series of dolls ...
and I listen to their voice.