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Gratitude for Our Daily Bread, Carma Bowen Gratitude for Our Daily Bread

Carma Bowen
Photographic print on paper, 2002


While rearranging a long–neglected corner of her basement, the artist decided to re–create the past in a photograph. Doing this brought back memories of childhood where bread was baked in an oven heated by coal and its wonderful aroma wafted through the air when the oven door was opened to check if the bread was done. The memory of a fall harvest of apples and vegetables also fill one with a feeling of being richly blessed by the hand of the Lord, and one feels gratitude for our daily bread.