Holy Week “Seasons”
For the past few years, I’ve been fixated on the seasons and the way that the rhythms of the natural world have lessons to teach us in other aspects of our lives. In 2021, my artwork for Eastbrook Church’s Holy Week reflected the seasons. Summer – Maundy Thursday Fall – Good Friday Winter – Holy Saturday Spring – Easter Sunday This quote was a guide for me as I worked: “As I have made some progress in my spiritual growth, increasingly I’ve come to cherish the seasons…. Seeing God in nature represents more than merely acknowledging the loveliness around us. It’s not just seeing God’s handiwork—rather, it’s seeing how He himself is at work within us. Creation is not just a postcard picture for us to behold; it’s also a road map for our learning more deeply who God is and how He feels about us. Rains, storms, and tempests only come to make the earth more beautiful. Whatever the devastation, nature heals itself; Resurrection is inherent in the soil we walk on. Just as we await our Lord’s return, so we wait, beyond life’s rainy days, for the beauty to come.” — Howard Butt, Jr.
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Holy Week 2020
Staging and print design for Holy Week, 2020. Iconic images from Caravaggio and Van Dyke are paired with modern, simple iconography for Ash Wednesday (heart), Palm Sunday (palm), Maundy Thursday (droplet), and Good Friday (cross). Frosted plexi is under/backlit in front of large printouts of these iconic images of Jesus. For Eastbrook Church, 2020.
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Graven Process Video
Collaborative Art project for Eastbrook Church, Ash Wednesday 2018. “Before the throne of God above I have a strong and perfect plea. A great high priest whose name is Love Who ever lives and pleads for me. My name is graven on His hands, My name is written on His heart. I know that while in Heaven He stands No tongue can bid me thence depart.”
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Graven
“Before the throne of God above I have a strong and perfect plea. A great high priest whose name is Love Who ever lives and pleads for me. My name is graven on His hands, My name is written on His heart. I know that while in Heaven He stands No tongue can bid me thence depart.”
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Dirt
God formed us out of the dirt (Genesis 3:19). God got dirty when He took on flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:14). He was born into the dirt of this world (Luke 2:7). For 30 years, Jesus did a dirty job, working as a carpenter. (Mark 6:3), Jesus wrote in the dirt (John 8:6), and he used dirt to heal (John 9:6). But so often, we try to create distance from our dirt. We create distance from others’ dirt. We avoid naming our own dirt. We definitely avoid the dirt of other people. Jesus isn’t afraid of your dirt. He takes our literal dirt upon Himself (2 Corinthians 5:21) and He takes our spiritual dirt (sin, Luke 10:11) on Himself on the Cross. Jesus got dirty so that we, made of dirt, filthy as we are, can be clean dirt. When we give him our dirt, he touches it, sanctifies it, and grows something beautiful from it. On Ash Wednesday, the people of Eastbrook Church gathered together to create something beautiful out of our dirt, which so easily entangles us. We used cups to scoop up either dirt, gravel, or sand and poured them out before taking communion. The final result is something beautiful that reflects not only our own […]
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