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Visualizing God


When I visualize God, I picture… a woman sweeping her house clean in search of some old treasure; a man climbing on a train to seek a new world; the whiskers of roots on that tomato seed I’m trying to … Continue reading

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Fragile Vessels


Fragile Vessels

2012, Handbuilt, Cone 10, Sandstone, Bisque-fired

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October 30 Salon 3X3 Poster


SALON 3 X 3 6 people; 3 artists 3 poets, in conversation about how art and poetry inspire each other. In casual conversation, the artists and poets will respond to each other’s work, read poems inspired by art, and vice … Continue reading

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October 30: Salon 3X3


SALON 3 X 3 6 people; 3 artists 3 poets, in conversation about how art and poetry inspire each other. In casual conversation, the artists and poets will respond to each other’s work, read poems inspired by art, and vice … Continue reading

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An Artist Statement


Where theology concerns itself in how the unseen makes its mark on the material, art concerns itself with making a material trace of the unseen. As a student of theology trained for ministry in a mainline, Canadian Protestant denomination, I … Continue reading

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Salon 3X3


Three artists, three poets. 6 people in conversation: 3 artists, 3 poets — how art and poetry inspire each other. Audience participation invited by way of on-the-spot poems and drawings. Sunday, October 30, 2011 at the Merchants of Green Coffee, … Continue reading

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Hagar, Offering, The First Idea of Sacrifice


Jacques Lipchitz fled to Toulouse when German troops occupied Paris in 1940. He soon left France for good and went to the US, where he settled in New York. Like Feuchtwanger, he used biblical themes in his sculptures. In his … Continue reading

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Sarah thy wife shall have a son Genesis 18:10


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The Lone Rose


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Art Talk


from a talk given on 5 February 2011 Art, as in painting, is another language.  And language, in a sense, is “transferring,” or translation. I recall my dad’s response to a woman’s impatience at his hesitation when talking about one … Continue reading

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