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The God Boxes Complete Installation by Mark Gerard McKee
The God Boxes Complete Installation by Mark Gerard McKee  Image: 2014.01.01, God Box No.1, 2014, 10.750 x 6.750 x 6inches, Wood, paper, acrylic paint. ©2023 Mark Gerard McKee.jpg
The God Boxes Complete Installation by Mark Gerard McKee  Image: 2014.01.02, God Box No.2, 2014, 10.750 x 6.750 x 6inches, Wood, paper, acrylic paint and human hair. ©2023 Mark Gerard McKee.jpg
The God Boxes Complete Installation by Mark Gerard McKee  Image: 2014.01.03, God Box No.3, 2014, 10.750 x 6.750 x 6inches, Wood, paper, cloth, acrylic paint and gold wire. ©2023 Mark Gerard McKee.jpg
The God Boxes Complete Installation by Mark Gerard McKee  Image: 2014.01.04, God Box No.4, 2014, 10.750 x 6.750 x 6inches, Wood, velvet, and acrylic paint. ©2023 Mark Gerard McKee.jpg
The God Boxes Complete Installation by Mark Gerard McKee  Image: 2014.01.05, God Box No.5, 2014, 10.750 x 6.750 x 6inches, Wood, Graphite, acrylic mediums, waterglass and water. ©2023 Mark Gerard McKee.jpg
The God Boxes Complete Installation by Mark Gerard McKee  Image: 2014.01.06, God Box No.6(In Anticipation of PTSD), 2014, 10.750 x 6.750 x 6inches, Wood, found objects, plastic, acrylic paint. ©2023 Mark Gerard McKee.jpg
The God Boxes Complete Installation by Mark Gerard McKee  Image: 2014.01.07, God Box No.7, 2014, 10.750 x 6.750 x 6inches, Wood, found objects, string, acrylic paint. ©2023 Mark Gerard McKee.jpg
The God Boxes Complete Installation by Mark Gerard McKee  Image: 2014.01.08, God Box No.8, 2014, 10.750 x 6.750 x 6inches, Wood, rose, nails, acrylic paint. ©2023 Mark Gerard McKee.jpg
The God Boxes Complete Installation by Mark Gerard McKee  Image: 2014.01.09, God Box No.9(Ashes to Ashes), 2014, 10.750 x 6.750 x 6inches, Wood, ashes, acrylic paint. ©2023 Mark Gerard McKee.jpg
The God Boxes Complete Installation by Mark Gerard McKee  Image: 2014.01.10, God Box No.10(All that Glitters), 2014, 10.750 x 6.750 x 6inches, Wood, money, chocolate, foil, bracelets, acrylic paint. ©2023 Mark Gerard McKee.jpg
The God Boxes Complete Installation by Mark Gerard McKee  Image: 2014.01.11, God Box No.11, 2014, 10.750 x 6.750 x 6inches, Wood, aluminum foil, acrylic mediums. ©2023 Mark Gerard McKee.jpg
The God Boxes Complete Installation by Mark Gerard McKee  Image: 2014.01.12, God Box No.12, 2014, 10.750 x 6.750 x 6inches, Wood, plastic, LEDs, acrylic paint. ©2023 Mark Gerard McKee.jpg
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We compartmentalize everything, creating our private or collective receptacles, resting places for both the precious and the profane.

The God Boxes is a body of works strongly influenced by archeology, specifically sacred containers. The original concept for this body arose from an observation of small clay boxes excavated in the Levant, present day Israel. It is speculated that these boxes had contained sacred texts

My introduction to the term God Boxes comes from Simon Schama’s The Story of the Jews. In it he relates the discovery of [two arks], the archaeologist to whom he speaks refers to them as “God Boxes”. I became fascinated with the term and its implications of [God], a God, according to Schama, "... with neither face or form, …but many names”

How does one express the concept of being, much less one which cannot be expressed, even the name cannot be uttered. How does this entity appear? How does one give form to that which has no earthly form?

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