Within the various theologies of liberation movements, the
symbolic construction of justice seeks to express the dialectical movement within the
function of Christian symbols: justice enables us to name faith, and faith symbols reconceived as justice
allow us to envision new spaces of life together.
By deliberately distorting the objects Gober re-creates, he
allows them to
function as
symbolic metaphors, breaking free from the reality of our perceived world and moving into a liminal space — one that exists somewhere between reality and dreams.