INTERTWINED: finding the sacred in the everyday
Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
(Psalm 139:7-8)
Within my practice, I am interested in the idea that artmaking can act as a form of worship and a
meditative response to the beauty and brokenness of the world. I approach artmaking as a
spiritual discipline that cultivates attentiveness, inviting both artist and viewer to encounter the
divine through slowness and observation. This project extends my ongoing exploration of how
the act of creation can become a means of communion with the Creator, or as Ronald
Rolheiser (2014) describes, ‘when we act like God, we get to feel like God’.
“Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God,
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.”
– Elizabeth Browning 1857
In the act of creation, I meet with God in reverence and surrender. The other side of that is where
God meets me. Of course, I believe that He is always present, but I think that there are specific
places where He promises to meet with us and places where He reveals Himself, waiting to be
discovered.
I aim to invite my viewers, through my work, into a posture of peace and appreciation.
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