For
She Is the Breadth of the Power of God
Jan
Neal, Curator presented
June 15, 2006
Kiss by Richard Adams
(Photograph, 2005) 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!