Resignify Me
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The story of Abraham and the angels is one the first mentions of angels in the Hebrew scriptures
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the story is over three thousand years old
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There are many renditions of this story and the angels appear in all
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Religions that claim abraham as their father-Jaism, Christianity, and Islam- all tell stories of angels
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And yet, it wasn’t until the fourth century that we began to depict them with wings
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and the fifth when we created the now standard iconography of angels with bird wings
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Even to acknowledge it feels wrong
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Like some kind of defamation
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how can we call them bird wings?
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They’re angel wings
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no stains of the city, unpolluted and uncompromised by the circumstances that come with existing as an earthly being.
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A bird. The pigeon rushing for our crumbs, the crow picking at the rotting remains of roadkill
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In the bible, Angels are described to look just like us; they use ladders
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To climb up to heaven, to come back down to earth: ladders
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it seems less majestic now than our beautiful bird wings, too attainable, too mundane.
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So we decided to make them bird wings, to create a simple codification
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a new meaning to a familiar sight
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a perfect expression of what travels between land and sky
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a perfect expression of what will always be just out of reach
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we took from what we saw before us
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we took from what we saw above us
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birds flying in the sky; free from the worries of earth
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able to lift up their wings effortlessly and rise above whatever troubles gravity glues us with on the ground
