Coffee Communion

(Spring, 2019)

I did a series of portraits in the Spring of 2019 featuring my fellow church members each with coffee in their hands. It is typical for a church to have a coffee hour before or after church, where members catch up on each other's lives, share concerns, laugh, gossip, tell stories. In many ways, it is the Communion we are taught about. The disciples were not all sitting in pews, silent. They had just had dinner; they were talking with each other, being in community. Coffee Hour or Coffee Fellowship is that community-building time in every church. All are acrylic, meant to be interchangeable on a wall together, and you could hang them in any pattern to get new conversations out of them. There were originally fifteen.