“Meg Hitchcock’s obsessive practice of transforming one religious text into another through an extremely labor intensive process of cutting letters from one holy book and pasting them into the sentences of another is both descriptive of a longing for transcendence and a concrete example of the effort required to achieve such. The passages from such diverse sources as the Bhagavad Gita, the Koran and Methodist hymnals are presented as enormous run-on sentences that form winding paths of devotion. The viewer is left wondering, in the words of the artist herself, ’if the author of the text is a saint, zealot, or madman.’ This revelation of the sincerity, passion, and possible madness at the heart of the spiritual pursuit mirrors that of any utopian project, be it transcendent (religion), aesthetic (art), or social (politics).” - Ben Evans, curator 2009 Bushwich Biennial
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