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God's
Work
Brie
Dodson, Curator presented
June 18, 2006 |
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Light
Source
by Francine Halvorsen
(Etching; aguatint; engraving, 2005, 28" x 52")
Cathedral of the Incarnation - Baltimore, MD
fhstudio@nyct.net
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We are graced with a universe of visible being, as, in the
illumination of transcendent light, sight becomes insight.
Art like religion moves between the concrete and the abstract
- the material and the transcendent. It also is in perpetual
adoration of creation.
An act of creation echoes the created world and gives us
a silent expansive moment that clears away veils of ordinary
sight and lets us see the joy and intelligence that is the
heart of spiritual vision.
From opaque moments, to great translucence, we experience
a oneness with the cosmos, from which daily habit has separated
us. When art touches us we know in a heartbeat that we have
the same nature as these wondrous and compelling elements
usually perceived as being outside ourselves.
Kant said that he believed in the "starry heaven above
me, moral law within me…".
Imagine though that the starry heavens and moral law are
inseparable in our perception.
Imagine for a moment that both exist inside and out, that
we are part of what we see and in communion with all the
wonders of nature, that we are sunshine, starlight, and
that the time of creation is always now.
Much as spirit often transcends substance, aesthetic experience
often gives significance to perception that discursive language
limits. A shock of recognition, of ourselves as luminous
as all things bright and beautiful, and shepherds of the
created world.
How compelling that is. How connected and responsible that
makes us, not only to our human community, but as well to
all of creation. |
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