"Still is a monumental painting by Alison Watt, at once arresting and absorbing, which hangs in the Memorial Chapel of Old Saint Paul’s Scottish Episcopal Church where it was installed for the 2004 Edinburgh Art Festival." quoted from the Edinburgh Art Festival website, 2013
The church has long been a patron of the arts, but in contemporary we so rarely see art as a form of worship. Watt's white fabric could be a shroud, a clerical vestment, a clean bed sheet for rest...the setting in a chapel urges us the viewers to meditate on this quiet moment -- as even her title "still" suggests ...
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