Manifest
by Angie Flanagan
Title
Manifest
Artist
Angie Flanagan
Medium
Photograph - Digital Print On Paper
Description
Manifest
A womb...a cage...the tangled web we weave...the unraveling of the tapestry of her fate... This image began with one paragraph I read in a book about the Crusades. There was a nun from Trier who had gone to support the Crusaders. She was taken hostage by the Turks during the siege of Nicaea. Upon her rescue, she confessed to “sexual misconduct” with a Turkish soldier who was now a captive.
When it became clear that the the Crusaders planned to offer clemency to the Turks, her soldier wrote to her. He begged her not to abandon him and even offered to become a Christian to be with her. Of course, his first act as a Christian would have to have been to renounce his love for a nun... She ran away with him and was never seen again.
Her name is lost to time. We only know of her because she was used at pulpits all over Europe as an example of why women, with their “lustful natures,” had no place at the front line of a “holy war”
I see her as a woman who plucked at a loose thread of her fate and found she’d unwoven the tapestry her world so carefully made for her. I can’t stop wondering about her and where her story took her next.
My friend Pilar gave me this title of Manifest because, as she poignantly explained, “the word means to become whole. To experience fruition. It is also the document that lists objects to be transported.”
Because this is a signed limited edition, please contact me directly for purchase options.
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July 26th, 2018
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