The Seven Days of Creation is a Series of seven art quilts, in part inspired by the Judaeo-Christian tradition of the creation of the world as a 'seven day process'. Other faiths describe that process differently.
The Creation Series ponders the idea that creation is eternal, is the ongoing flux of all that is. Around thirteen billion years ago, the primeval fireball burst into action creating, over time, what we name as atoms, then galaxies of stars, then planets, then the unfolding of all living and non-living forms.
Some name this process as Love. 

The Creation Series has four layers of story:
Each of these layers of story is incorporated into an over-all colour symbolism which moves from the silent darkness of space in 'Origins - Day the First' through the coming of light, colour and diversity on the Earth, to the golden colour of communication, 'Human -Day the Sixth', and finally to the still, white image of Spirit, 'Spirit - Day the Seventh'.

• The physical creation of the Universe
• The story of Life developing on Earth
• The story of Human consciousness developing from the earliest ancestors to the magical sorcerer figures painted on caves, to the 'Mother Goddess' figurines (such as Venus of Willendorf), to the great religious figures such as Christ, Buddha and Krishna, who represent a peaking of human consciousness.
• The fourth layer of the Creation story is the gestation of a child, from a few cells ('Day the First') to birth ('Day the Seventh').

 Title: "Origins – Day the First" (2009)    Size: 98cm x 146cm    Price: $700

 "Origins - Day the First" holds the associated ideas:

• 'Let there be light: and there was light'.
• 'And God set His/Her Compass upon the Face of the Deep'; the Primeval Fireball; hydrogen atoms; the 'Big Bang'.
• The time before time; conception; dim Eden; Prakriti; Atomos; Cosmic Serpent; energy; Ursprung; the Rainbow Serpent; the subconscious; instinctive; matter; nature; context; potential; spiral.
• 'The desire in the human to know our origin is as strong as the desire for water.'

​          (This text is written on the back of the artwork)
           Photo: Terrence Bogue

"Every point in the cosmos can be considered its centre."  
​ Dorothy Maclean

"Origins -Day the First" (Detail)

The piece is made from a hand-dyed silk whole-cloth, with machine-pieced insertions radiating from a central point, to suggest the stupendous burst of radiation energy at the centre of the primeval Big Bang'. The images hand-quilted into the piece are of a mollusc, one of the primitive life-forms in the history of the Earth, and of the human foetus a day or so after conception. Finally, the piece is embroidered with the words, "The roaring laughter of God", at the site of the primeval fireball.
Photo: Terrence Bogue

"The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf."                                                                                                     Shakti Gawain

Title: "Galactic - Day the Second" (2009)    ​Size: 100cm x 146cm ​  SOLD

"Galactic: Day the Second" holds the associated ideas:

• Around 14 billion years ago: expanding energies, nuclear fusion, the creation of Helium atoms, the beginning of the galaxies.
• Humans around 200,000 years ago: Paleolithic, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon humans. The shaman figure of the ‘Sorcerer of Trois Freres Cave’ (France) is a wall-etching of a human male with deer-skin cloak, antlers, the tail of a wolf and the eyes of an owl suggesting primitive magical thinking.
• Human embryonic development at Week 2: head and tail, beginning of heart and blood vessels, paralleling evolution of fish and vertebrates on the Earth.

​        (This text is written on the back of the artwork)
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  "Galactic - Day the Second" (Detail)

The piece is made from cotton whole-cloth, with an inserted machine-pieced band in zigzag pattern to suggest the dark, swirling clouds of energy and particles which coalesced to form the first galaxies, some time after the 'Big Bang'. A 'galaxy' image is embroidered with French knots. Quilted in are images of a fish, a human embryo at two weeks, and the 'Sorcerer of Trois Freres Cave', (southern France), a shaman-image.
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Title: "Stellar - Day the Third" (2009)  Size: 100cm x 140cm  SOLD

"Stellar: Day the Third" holds the following associated ideas:

•  Five billion years ago, exploding stardust, supernova, new stars, new elements, radiation, planets
• Human embryonic development at Week 4, also life in the seas, and the evolution of frogs, other amphibians and reptiles.
• Human society around 10,000 years ago - Mesolithic Age, the Venus of Willendorf figurine and the other 'Great Mother' votive figurines of Southern Europe; development of language, use of names

         (This text is written on the back of the artwork)
​Image: Terrence Bogue

  Title: "Stellar - Day the Third" (2010)    Size: 100cm x 145cm   SOLD

The piece is made from two hand-dyed cotton whole-cloths, cut and machine-pieced, to suggest increasing differentiation as planetary systems formed around stars. Hand-quilted images of a frog (amphibious life), a human embryo at four weeks, and two images from early human society - the Venus of Willendorf, figure, and a Minoan Goddess figure; both evoking women's awesome procreative power.
​Image: Terrence Bogue

  Title: "Elemental - Day the Fourth" (2010)    Size: 100cm x 145cm   SOLD

"Elemental: Day the Fourth" holds the following associated ideas:

• And God said, "Let the dry land appear: and it was so." (Genesis)
• Around 4.5 billion years ago, condensing atmosphere around Earth cooled, forming oceans and land-masses, the emergence of photosynthesis, proteins, multi-cellular life, awakening
• Human embryonic development at Week 8: the development of limbs; the evolution of the mammals
• Human society around 3,500 years ago -the Iron Age, first evidence of human sacrifice, war.
• 'Great Goddess' images: Kali, Kwan Yin, Kannon, Ishtar, Astarte, Isis, Hathor, Aphrodite; early civilizations; the first appearance of the alphabet, writing, money, mathematics

     Image: Terrence Bogue

    "Elemental - Day the Fourth" (Detail)

The piece is made from hand-dyed and commercial fabrics, machine-pieced to suggest the cooling of the Earth and the appearance of land-masses. Quilted-in are images of a tiger (mammal), a human embryo at two months, and Kwan Yin ('Kannon' in Japanese Buddhism) one of the "Great Goddess' images that are always depicted with a double halo. 
​Image: Terrence Bogue

       Title: "Organic: Day the Fifth" (2009)    Size: 99cmx146cm    SOLD

"Organic: Day the Fifth" holds the following associated ideas:

• "Let the earth bring forth grass".
• Around 670 million years ago: increased oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere, respiration, carbon, complex life-forms, genes, genetic memory, sexuality, offspring, infinite new possibilities, flowering plants, fish, birds, Gondwanaland
• Human foetal development at Week 16: the development of the nervous system
• Human society around 3000 to 2000 years ago: the appearance of the sun-gods - Ra, Apollo, and Invictus Sol; monotheism, Moses, the Genesis myth, peak-consciousness, Shankara, Lao Tzu, Krishna, Buddha, Christ
• The mental, ego, reflexive activity of humans; the beginning of science and philosophy

     Image: Terrence Bogue

Title: "Organic: Day the Fifth" (Detail)

The piece is made of hand-dyed and commercial fabrics machine-pieced, with a roundel to represent the burgeoning Earth, with her plant-life and the myriad birds and animals which came to inhabit her. Pleated and flat fabrics criss-cross each other, in a beaded riot of fertility. Exposed seams suggest Nature refusing to be confined. Quilted-in are images of a sixteen week old foetus, and three icons of Higher Consciousness: Krishna, the Buddha, and the 'Sacred Heart of Jesus'
​Image: Terrence Bogue

"Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity we shall harness the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, humankind will have discovered fire."
​  Teilhard de Chardin

 Title: "Human: Day the Sixth" (2009)   Size:100cm x 142cm  Price: $700

"Human: Day the Sixth" holds the following associated ideas:

• Around 2 million years ago: the Ice Ages, mammals, Africa as the cradle of humankind, Hominids, the earliest human beings
• Human society: earliest evidence of psychic or existential awareness, the image of Chiron the Centaur (from Greek mythology), symbolizing human awareness of death
• Foetal development at Week 28: skeleton and muscles, eyes are open
• Christ's words, "Into Thy hands I commend my spirit."​​

      Title: "Human: Day the Sixth" (Detail)

This piece is made of hand-dyed and commercial fabrics, machine-pieced to suggest the landscape, with a primitive human whose has learned to use tools, and make fire. There are hand-quilted images of Chiron, the wisest of the Centaurs, who bridged animal and human nature, and also the baby, turned head-down in preparation for birth.

"Everything in the world is impermanent, like autumn clouds. The birth and death of living beings are like scenes in a theatrical play."                                                                                                                                                                                                        Buddha

        Title:"Spirit: Day the Seventh" (2009)    Size: 97cmx140cm    Price: $700

"Spirit: Day the Seventh" holds the following associated ideas:

• 2,500 years ago to the present:
• HERE, NOW, the subtle, causal, mystical; birth, engage, release, connect;
• Journey to the centre/Centre, super-consciousness;
• My body is the universe, the universe is my body;
• In the Beginning, Return, the name of ALLAH, the Wheel of Kharma;
• The questions, 'What dies?', 'What remains?'​

     Title: "Spirit: Day the Seventh" (Detail)

The piece is machine-pieced in shades of white, with a circular design radiating out from a central mandala (signifying 'the dwelling place of the god'), which could be a Star of David, or an ancient Hindu symbol. As the circle extends outward, the quilted-in symbols include an Arabic inscription of the Name of ALLAH, and the Wheel of Kharma. Finally, complementary images: of Birth, and then the words, 'What dies? What remains?'

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."  
​Ralph Waldo Emerson  

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