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Painting-A-Day: July 26, 2016

7/26/2016

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From Arvo Pårt's Antiphon #2: O Adonai

Each of these paintings from the Magnificat Antiphonen are not yet finished. I stop at about the  3/4 mark and then will put them away to rest. When I bring them out again, I should be able to see what else is needed. I will share them all when I am done. Keep scrolling down to hear the music that inspires this one. The first step was a background of black gesso,
with the addition of Clear Tar Gel to create a raised surface of lines.
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It dries bringing a gloss black line on a matt black surface paint.
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I hear the deep dark notes of browns and black and then the smooth melodic tenor flowing.
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O Adonai,
Lord and Leader of the House of Israel,
In the flaming thorn bush
Were you revealed to Moses
And upon the mountain you gave him your law.
O come and deliver us with thy strong arm.
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Painting-A-Day: July 14, 2016

7/13/2016

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A few weeks ago I spoke at the Northwestern Pennsylvania Synod Convention in Greenville, PA. The theme of their gathering was "Christian Spirituality & The Arts". They invited a musician, a dancer and me, a visual artist, to speak to this theme. Just where do the arts fit into how we speak about the faith? Does it even matter?

The Christian Church hasn't always been so good about talking about or understanding spirituality. What does that mean exactly?

Here are some quotes from my speech...

“ To be human is to ask unanswerable questions, but also to persist in asking them, to be broken and ache for wholeness, to hurt and to try to find a way to healing through the hurt. To be human is to embody a paradox, for according to that ancient vision, we are “less than the gods, more than the beasts, yet somehow also both.”

“We are not “everything” but neither are we “nothing.” Spirituality is discovered in that space between paradox’s extremes, for there we confront our helplessness and powerlessness, our woundedness.” -The Spirituality of Imperfection

"And, that is where God meets us. “God comes through the wound.”  I've experienced this personally with a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis eight years ago. It is a chronic illness involving a lot of pain, exhaustion and weakness. I didn't blame God...I think because my mom always said, we all will have something, some struggle, some disappointment or sorrow in this life. It is the way it is on this earth. My only take away through this experience is that God was with me in my pain, sorrow, and anguish. There was mystery here and I've accepted that I can't know it all. I think my mom said that, too! :)
                                          
The arts help us to explore the fundamental mysteries of what it means to be human...who we are, why we are and how we are to live. The arts can give us a glimpse of the beauty that is God’s love for us through creation and through our human relationships. The arts can also give us a  glimpse of the spiritual side of who we are as human beings, our joys and sorrows, our struggles, our questions.

Art, music and dance, then, are part of a universal language that speaks across culture, geography and time. What a beautiful thing that is! Where language and culture can divide us, the arts connect us to each other and to the One who made all things.

“To have the answers is to have misunderstood the question. Truth, wisdom, goodness, beauty, the fragrance of a rose -- all resemble spirituality in that they are intangible, ineffable [indescribable] realities. We may know them, but we can never grasp them with our hands or with our words.

Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond expectation. Because ‘the spiritual’ is beyond our control, it is never exactly what we expect.

The word spiritual originally meant what the most obvious synonyms of spirit -- breath, wind -- signify: something that cannot be seen but that we nevertheless experience.”  -The Spirituality of Imperfection

The arts, then, become a voice for the spiritual...those things we experience but can’t quite grasp, can’t seem to express with words. The arts tap into our deepest questions and wonderings... they speak of our joys and our pain, of light and darkness, of chaos and beauty. We connect with God in new and different ways through the arts. So, yes, I believe the arts are crucial for the church and for all of humanity, whether you follow Christ, Muhammad, Moses or Buddha. The human spirit was made to create, and in that sense, I believe we are created in the image of God.






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Painting-A-Day: July 8, 2016

7/8/2016

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The first steps of painting Antiphon #1 of Arvo Pårt's Antiphonen
"O Weisheit" O Wisdom

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 More to come on this painting...in the meantime, you can listen to the music that inspired it.

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Painting-A-Day: July 5, 2016

7/5/2016

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Magnificat (Step 2) 22" x 30" Acrylic on Watercolor Paper

I have added quite a bit to the beginning paint strokes of my last post, an interpretation of Arvo Pårt's Magnificat (June 30, 2016). I am listening for depth and for crescendos. You can see the deeper colors and the highlights that bring out both. I've stopped for the day on this one. I will put it away for a while and look at it with fresh eyes in a few days to see where I need to go next and will start on the first  of the seven Antiphons, O Weisheit. You can replay the music link I posted on June 30th for the Magnificat and listen to what I am listening to when I work on this one. When I post my progress on O Weisheit, I will add the music link for that one. On to the next painting...
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