Genesis - Curse and Blessing

This weeks message was on curse and blessing and their implementation in the story of the garden. The DOMA team put their heads together to come up with ideas of how to visually represent the theme through a creative piece. We took the idea of a covering, as Adam and Eve made coverings for themselves out of fig leaves to cover their nakedness. We wanted to portray how a covering could represent both a curse and a blessing as it did in the Genesis story. We decided that a veil was the perfect portrayal of both a blessing and a curse. Here were some photos for inspiration.



The idea is that a veil is worn in both times of sadness and joy, to cover grief and to cover purity. When a loved one passes away, it is tradition for the widow (reference to sin and death) to wear a black veil to cover her face. When a bride (reference to the church as the bride of Christ) is to be wed, it is tradition for her to wear a white veil to cover her face. We had a photographer from DOMA take pictures of faces of people in the fellowship. We took the images cropped them to be just the eyes (the most powerful and emotional part of the face) and printed them out about 1'x3' each and had them mounted on foam core. We bought veil fabric in both black and white and cut strips for each. We displayed the images on stage during the services on music stands and draped the fabric over the eyes as a veil. Here are some images from the services:



We also were lucky enough to have a DOMA artist provide a live snake to display on stage during the services to represent the serpent from the Genesis story. Here are some images of that: