Daily Bread

A video installation by Sonia Davis Gutiérrez

It is with the reenactment of this dream that I experienced in 2009, that I share with you a vision I have for the Catholic church where anyone may participate in communion, and one can take as much communion as one needs. This dream reflects not only my Catholic upbringing but my Mexican heritage by the iconic substitution of Mexican sweet bread for the Body of Christ. In experiencing this work, I invite you to reflect on your own stories of communion; search for inclusion; and fulfillment of your personal spiritual, emotional and physical hungers.

This was filmed at St. Catherine's at Bell Gable in Fayetteville, Arkansas where artist Sonia Davis Gutierrez lives, works and plays. More about the chapel: stcatherinesatbellgable.com/index2.php#/home/

Priest: Tim Caffrey
Congregant: Jennifer Nesbitt
Indian: Sonia Davis Gutierrez and Mike Davis Gutierrez

Filmed with a Go Pro camera worn by all the actors on April 22, 2014

Edited by Sonia Davis Gutierrez, William Penny and Kat Wilson

Soundtrack by Exploding Cigar and the Fisher Price Players: Gerald Sloan, Sam King, Mike Davis Gutierrez and Sonia Davis Gutierrez

The video premiered at the opening reception of the dual exhibition of husband and stone sculptor Mike Davis Gutierrez and wife Sonia Davis Gutierrez on May 8, 2014, at the Arts Center of the Ozarks in Springdale, Arkansas.