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PROJECT N°012026 — CURRENT · SCRIPTURE / MATERIAL STUDY / FILM

Ἡ Πανοπλία τοῦ Θεοῦ

HĒ PANOPLIA TOU THEOU · THE ARMOR OF GOD

A live study of the whole armor of God—moving from language and material history into image, movement, sound, and film.

LIVE PROCESS REGISTER · UPDATED AS THE WORK MOVES

BEING
BUILT.

This is not a retrospective. Questions, evidence, tests, failures, and decisions enter the record while the project is still becoming.

PRODUCTION TIMELINE

Sequence of record.

Entries are added in order and never rewritten. Closed work stays closed; open work stays visibly open.

  1. SEP 2026 · WK 1CLOSED

    PROJECT OPENED

    Ἡ Πανοπλία τοῦ Θεοῦ entered the register as the studio's current work, built in public from the first question forward.

  2. SEP 2026 · WK 1CLOSED

    READING SET

    Passage fixed at Ephesians 6:10–20 rather than 6:10–18, keeping the ambassador in chains inside the frame.

  3. SEP 2026 · WK 2ACTIVE

    GREEK REGISTER BUILT

    Word-by-word apparatus against NA28, with per-entry lexical citation to BDAG, LSJ, and Thayer.

  4. SEP 2026 · WK 2ACTIVE

    VERSE COMMENTARY DRAFTED

    Eleven verse notes written; each states what the Greek carries that the English cannot, and where the reading remains unresolved.

  5. SEP 2026 · WK 3OPEN

    OBJECT STUDY

    Scheduled: θυρεός construction, cuirass weight distribution, and the arming sequence of vv. 14–17 tested on a body.

  6. OCT 2026OPEN

    FIRST CAMERA TESTS

    Scheduled: light, texture, and stillness tests. Rejected takes will be published beside the accepted ones.

  7. TBDOPEN

    FILM

    Unscheduled. The film will not begin until the material research can answer for every object on screen.

01 / OPENING QUESTION

SEP 2026 · ACTIVE

What is the whole armor?

The first task is to resist the flattened inventory. Πανοπλία names complete equipment; the project begins by asking what becomes visible when the phrase is restored to language, body, and collective practice.

Research notes and photographic studies arranged on a work table
PLATE 01 · WORKING VISUAL · DEMONSTRATION MEDIA

02 / TEXT / INTERTEXT

SEP 2026 · ACTIVE

God wears the armor first.

Ephesians 6 is being read beside Isaiah 59, where the Lord puts on righteousness as a breastplate and salvation as a helmet. The citation changes the image before any object is designed.

OPEN ISAIAH 59:17 †
A shaft of light crossing a stone threshold
PLATE 02 · WORKING VISUAL · DEMONSTRATION MEDIA

03 / LANGUAGE APPARATUS

SEP 2026 · ACTIVE

Every marked word now opens its Greek.

The reading of 6:10–20 carries a word-by-word Greek register: form, gloss, working note, and a cited lexical source for each entry. Page-level citations are still being added, and that gap is stated in the panel itself.

OPEN THE GREEK REGISTER †
Research notes and photographic studies arranged on a work table
PLATE 03 · WORKING VISUAL · DEMONSTRATION MEDIA

04 / MATERIAL RESEARCH

NEXT · OPEN

Before symbol: weight, fastening, failure.

The next register will examine construction, weight, movement, protection, vulnerability, and the bodily knowledge of wearing armor. Findings and rejected visual tests will be added here.

Weathered wood and limestone used as temporary material-study imagery
PLATE 04 · WORKING VISUAL · DEMONSTRATION MEDIA