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Tabernaculum of The Annunciation- David Otto Scaer

$600.00
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Tabernaculum of The Annunciation

David Otto Scaer


Oil on paper in cigar box

Table top

8" x 6.5"


“Tabernaculum to the Annunciation is a small, three-panel painted object constructed from a latching wooden cigar box and intended to be encountered primarily in its closed state. When sealed and wall-mounted, it presents a single exterior image: a young girl rendered through a restrained imitatio of Petrus Christus. The portrait is composed and self-contained, quietly assuming the identity of its subject as Mary without narrative declaration. In this condition, the work offers a finished surface—complete, legible, and withheld.

The work discloses its meaning only when unsealed. Opening the box reveals two interior painted panels that reframe the Annunciation as a reading event rather than a depicted episode. Gabriel appears in the act of address; Mary is shown already altered by what has been encountered. A ribbon integrated into Mary’s headdress on the exterior panel reappears inside, cast free, establishing continuity between enclosure and release. The viewer completes the work by opening it, enacting the passage it depicts: meaning unfolds through use, and what is read cannot be unread.”