Creation and Recreation
Photograph copyright by Frank Logue, all rights reserved
You send forth your Spirit, and they are created; and so you renew the face of the earth. Psalm 104:31
I like to think of artist as co-creators who work with the raw stuff of creation to forge a vision of not just what is, but create a unique view. Art speaks in a mytho-poetic way to show the deeper reality or the possibilities that lie hidden. But for this to work, the artist must not just create. The artist must also make room to be recreated. As Christian artists, we must make room within our lives for the Gospel to break into our lives in such a way as to show us the world anew. In that spirit I offer two photos from recent travels in Italy and France. These were both taken in Rome and in that eternal city, we see people in two different piazzas involved in creation and recreation.
Comments and photographs by The Rev. Frank Logue, Pastor + King of Peace Episcopal Church, 6230 Laurel Island Parkway + Kingsland, Georgia 31548 ;www.kingofpeace.org; http://kingofpeace.blogspot.com/. Many thanks, Frank.
Photograph copyright by Frank Logue, all rights reserved
Posted on Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 09:05PM
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Jan Neal, ECVA Program Director
in Season After Pentecost
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I love this insight, the idea that we are broken open: re-created in the midst of our art.
"Being recreated in the midst of our art as we are broken open," reminds me that when people ask me, "What is the inspiration for your art?", I answer, "My art." This may sound a bit grandiose on my part, but what I mean is that as I paint, I am inspired by what is happening on the paper/canvas, something that clearly, I could not envision before I began, no matter how much planning I did.