Robin - "Into the Hands of the Living God" series
Kathy T. Hettinga
digital inkjet print on Epson Textured Fineart
40" x 84"
2001

While at Christ in the Desert Monastery, my friend, a Mexican seminarian, said, "What better place to fall than into the hands of the living God." Though it mean judgment (Hebrews 10:31), still, what better place? My series "Into the Hands of the Living God" looks at scanned dead birds and small animals at monumental size. The robin enters into death gracefully, into the glorious light of our Savior Jesus Christ. Others, like the thrasher, struggle against the darkness.