 Open Table © 1998 Ginger Henry Geyer glazed and tinted porcelain with gold and platinum 1½" x 12" x 9½" Unlike the long rectangular table immortalized by Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, many early Christian representations of the Eucharist show Jesus and the Twelve seated around a round table. That image of equality and connectedness was also imprinted on us by the legends of the Knights of the Round Table and the quest for the Holy Grail. This round table is worked in “cross stitch” done in a rudimentary fashion, as if a child’s first sampler. Why does it appear unfinished? Why is the hoop sprung open? (it is a significant flaw that the hoop is also broken). In which traditions of Christianity is the Eucharist/communion a “closed table”? Note: the needle is threaded with the color of bread. Scriptures: 1 Cor. 11:17-34 Matt. 26:26-28 (and similar in Mark 14:22, Luke 22:19) John 6:33-35 |