Devotion

When the Idol gazes, His gaze is refracted through the prisms of the assembled. But, like mirrors, the exalting chorus has solidity: They are pledged, not surrendered and not taken.

This figure presents a veritable manual on the way of the Disciple: the compliance of the curved lines suggests subsumption of the self. But note that the sacrifice is not utter. The blank spaces—the floral forms—provide a bold counterpoint, a representation of Will, of an offering unmade.

True devotion is never total.