Job

Given the theme of "Destruction", I wanted to create something personal, both to the characters in the text and to myself. The story of Job stood out to me as a moment of destruction in the life of a man. The question that arises is a common one, "If God is good, then why is this happening?". Job's destruction is immense, and though I personally have not seen so profound a collapse, I saw in Job's story a place to process my own experiences of loss and of seeing things fall through. Like Job, I don't think we always get a justification or an explanation, but he still chooses to worship. This sculpture depicts his act of worship in the midst of loss. I wanted the forms of the sculpture to show a weariness, to show visibly the sense of being distressed by the harder events of life. However, the moment of worship is equally important, where our gaze shifts away from our circumstances. It is not the good that we receive from the Lord that is worth worshipping, but the Lord who is worthy of worship. Job is down but looking straight ahead, pitting a very legitimate despair against an attitude of trust.