Warm Welcome & Wee Glimpse
Welcome to an online look into my actual studio & study, a window if you will... This site started as a personal blog of my transitions from teaching art K-12 to research in visual culture in Scotland over a decade ago, evolving into a studio / study website. To navigate directly to stained glass works, select the Portfolio tab.Below are a few personal photos selected from various travels that signpost a life quest of what visual art does in and through us. Narrowing down five (from thousands) as an introduction are these taken from: art therapy with war and tsunami refugees, Salisbury Cathedral reflections, a museum exhibit quote, a desk stack of thought-generators, and finally - one of resting amid a life of looking. I look for seeing. As I read books I circle the word "see" and "light"; I annotate words such as "shift" and "incarnational". My son's middle name is a Greek word that means "to see with compassion that moves to action"; he is my constant reminder that humans are capable of seeing things differently, adjusting perspective, that we have opportunities of empathy, compassion and action, redemption and celebration. As I travel the world, I hang out at the intersection of art, education, culture, and faith. Visual art can facilitate a physical space where an inner-person place of shift can occur. What shift? You may have experienced it before through any form of art or experience where sight becomes insight, where stance bends to nuance, where assertion is polished off with humility, knowledge pivots to wisdom, where life realizes fragility and lends you strength. An internal shift can take place, from the serendipitous underestimatedly minor to an unexpected comprehensive overhaul - that place is one I attempt to hold up to the light through studio and study. From classroom to nature trail to museum to sanctuary to screen, let's see...
1 comment:
love the renovations.
laurie
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