Statement
Kathleen Campbell
In Western culture, science and technology have taken the place that religion used to hold in our lives. Referring to the sacred tradition in Western art, I reflect on our worship of these new gods. Here, old Mac Classic computers are used in place of the bones of the saints or other relics that were placed in "reliquaries," or elaborate, decorated boxes, during the middle ages. Faithful pilgrims looked to them for help for salvation in another world. In the twenty-first century, we have our own reliquaries -- here -- pieces of the antiquated technology that began our leap into the digital unknown. We are illuminated by their immaterial light.
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