Spiritual Sight
Jan Neal, Curator presented June
14, 2006
Rosabunda Center
by Richard Adams (Photograph, 2004) St.
Augustine's Episcopal Church - Wilmette, IL frarico@sbcglobal.net
These six frames are part of a celebratory collection of
some seventy-five intimate, close-up digital images of
flowers that I have arranged into a computer-desktop
"slideshow." The sequence of images appears on one's
computer screen only after a pause of half a minute or
more. I suppose that -- at
least part of the time -- such
pauses happen because the person seated at the computer
is a little bit stumped about what to do next.
Then these images appear. They have transportive power;
the result is that the user forgets the problem at hand
and goes on a brief but total re-creative
break and -- shazam! - an
answer to the problem emerges from a freshly activated
intuition!
Friends and strangers who have seen the sequence have
observed to me unprompted that it makes them see God
wonderfully at work, which gladdens me, for one of my
highest artistic values is to make myself as transparent
as possible in my work!
I rejoice at these opportunities to participate in life
as one of God's beloved co-creators. And I am grateful
for a way to share these moments I am given, moments
when I brush against the Creator's cheek as he breathes
beauty onto the earth!