This year for Advent we put together a 4-week series answering the question “Why Did God Become Human?” We took a look at important sections of scripture that speak to this question and incorporated the work of Athanasius in his On The Incarnation to help us. Our artists were tasked with expressing the four reasons we came up with visually.

Jess Lambas, Cassie Roltgen, Laura Murphy and Kira Lambas created an installation of four chiffon panels, with each panel corresponding to a specific facet of the incarnation. A panel was added each week, and the backlit panels overlapped and played off one another once the piece was completed.

The four panels, from back to front, are:

BECAME: God became human to fulfill Old Testament prophecy.
QUELL: God became human to conquer death.
BRIDGE: God became human to show us what God is like.
COMMUNE: God became human to share the divine nature with us.