George Makary
Miriam
Painting
2019
Watercolour on paper
9"x12"
Miriam pushes through the bulrushes to seek after her saviour (who Biblically is her own brother/flesh and blood- a symbol for “salvation” in self-resolution of identity), a personification of the Coptic community that travels the “Nile” to seek after an exodus from their social liberation and from ethnic cleansing and discrimination. The execution and style aims to strongly mirrors the sixth-century Coptic frescoes of Bawit.
Work by
George Makary
Painting, Iconography
“Alternating between the secular and religious, the earthly and the divine, I aim to weave two threads through a single tapestry, a conduit to the Copt unlocking the mysteries of who they are and how...” [More]