He is holy and he is firm, spanning all the long gap
with the length of his love, in flawed imitation of Christ on the cross
stretched both ways unbroken and thorned.
So must the work be also, in touch with, in touch with, in touch with;
spanning the gap from here to eternity, home. - Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm
I paint to meditate on the world and to remind myself that it is grace
to be alive in it, to celebrate the ordinary, which is at base in touch with the extraordinary. Watercolors force me to
be free; I am drawn to their simple, free-flowing strokes that offer
suggestions, rather than exact representations, of the world I see. Unlike how we were once taught, lines are often meant to be crossed and painted over...just as life is rarely lived well within a neat and tidy preplanned sketch. Trees, landscapes, freshly picked vegetables, a flower...all can offer profound
beauty and hope. |
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