Burning Bush

Burning Bush
Tara Sasiadek
Mosaic on Panel
72” x 48”
$1400

Burning Bush is a politically charged play on words, in three heavily mosaic-covered panels meant to evoke the ornate church adornments of Byzantium. The first panel proclaims that God Speaks in nature, as in the burning bush of Moses, as the bush catches fire with divine speech, impossible to behold directly. The middle panel portrays a public figure hubristically claiming to “Speak for God,” and the third declares the right of every individual to speak for themselves without fear of persecution by the state, represented by a burning “female bush.”