Artist: Janiece Murray
Title: Strangers in a Strange Land
Medium: Original handmade earth pigment watercolors, silver leaf, white gold, and gold leaf
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Artist Statement: 
The events of the Bible are considered by many to be myth or folktale, while I do not share this believe, certainly many of the things recorded are quite fantastic in nature. The phrase from Exodus 2:22 captured my imagination when I first became aware of it several years ago. In the Christian tradition, all of humanity could indeed be viewed as strangers in a strange land, coming from a Heavenly realm to dwell on this Earth for a time. Using a geometric pattern from Damascus, and Dr. C. Lance Harding’s analysis of the Desiderian cannon of human proportion I have contemplated this journey we make as humans.