God's
Work
Brie
Dodson, Curator presented
June 18, 2006
Pink & Green with Emily 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 recreative 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!