And the spirit of God moved upon the abyss. Gen 1: 1

Text from this Hebrew passage in the Genesis story is distorted as it swells and moves over the "face of the deep." The pages from an actual book were glued together and then surfaced with a pearled black paint, suggesting the deep, the unknown, the abyss-a mystery to unfold.

Sandra Bowden is a painter and printmaker living in Chatham, MA. Reading and seeing, image and text have provided a rich well of materials from which she draws her inspiration. With over 100 one person shows, her work is in many collections including the Vatican Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, the Museum of Biblical Art, and the Haifa Museum. She is also a passionate collector of religious art dating from the early 15th century to the present. Miserere and Guerre by George Rouault was show from her collection at MOBIA in NYC in 2006.

Sandra was president of Christians in the Visual Arts from 1993-2007 and is a Trustee of the Museum of Biblical Art in New York City. She studied at Massachusetts College of Art and received her BA from the State University of New York. In 2005 Square Halo published The Art of Sandra Bowden. For more on her art go to www.sandrabowden.com