S K E T C H E S
Art for a Burning World
The world feels overwhelming with change and uncertainty. To hold both knowing and unknowing in a delicate, dynamic, and highly creative tension is one of the primary skills we need if we want to live with courage and wisdom in an unstable climate. We seek to find a truth by living an authentic life, holding the joys and sorrows of human existence, and translating it into an artistic language that connects us. Without the raw, undiluted expressions of art there would be little understanding of the human soul. We believe the arts, motivated by love have a power to draw us into reflection and connect the space between us.
Creation Prayer Canvas
We continue to explore our vision for our Creation Prayer Canvas. Our sketches are the early idea stage to engage the community in artistic and spiritual practice to find common ground through art and spirit. We offer the Creation Prayer Canvas as a unique design for the community to participate in its development of an authentic communal piece of art. The canvas when completed becomes part of an evening vesper service for the healing of the nations.
Earth Prayer Canvas
Our Earth Prayer Canvas takes a different focus and explores and reclaims an earth-based spiritual practice. Our sketches are the early idea stage to engage the community in artistic and spiritual practice to find common ground through art and spirit. The finished prayer canvas grounds us to celebrate earth and nature and deepen our relationships to the earth, air, water, and its creatures. The Earth Prayer Canvas, along with words, music and nature recordings center the spirit to be alive with beauty, love for creation and the wisdom it teaches.
Painting Studies
Our painting process involves drawing, drawing and more drawing. After a period of time living with the sketches, some are chosen or parts and combined to form a more finished piece. The sketches have an infinite life span and are worked and re-worked inspired by new experiences and the passing of time.
Rivers + Watersheds
We have lived a border life on the boundary of nourishment from wilderness and that of civilization cultivating the essential nature of spirit. That time has helped us to reflect on the very nature of rivers, creeks and watersheds as the wellspring of life itself. Many of the sketches found here are studies for a book project.
Wilderness
We fell in love with the beauty and the rugged challenge of the wilderness. We have made hundreds of sketches that explore the paradox of the wild, that along with journal writings will continue to inspire our work for earth justice. Henry David Thoreau wrote, “Humans cannot afford to be a naturalist to look at nature directly…we must look through and beyond her.”