Author Archives: Christi

About Christi

I am a single mother with two young daughters who are the world to me. I am a philosophy professor, especially fond of Kierkegaard and Augustine. Presently, I teach as an adjunct at a plethora of colleges in the Houston area, trying to make ends meet. Creating art brings me immense joy, but only recently have I begun to venture into the arena of making my creations a consumer commodity. I'd rather my work be created as a good in itself, and given to those I love. But necessity breeds invention, they say, and human beings have to eat.

May the World be Brighter

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Christi

9×12″ pastels and marker on paper December 2, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald: I have a strange feeling sometimes, that I am a ghost, sent into the world to minister to my … Continue reading →

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Reading Suspended

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Christi

8×10″ pen on paper September 28, 2012 Buy prints Part of a series called “Tolle Lege” (“take up and read”) inspired by the conversion scene in from book VIII of Augustine’s Confessions.

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This Book Changed My Affections

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Christi

8×10″ charcoal and colored pencil on paper January 5, 2013 Buy original Buy print Inspired by the following lines from The Confessions of St. Augustine: In the ordinary course of study I came upon a book by a certain Cicero…. … Continue reading →

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To See, To Know, To Understand, To Love

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Christi

7×9″ pen on paper September 2, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following line from “The Consuming Fire” from George MacDonald’s Unspoken Sermons: To see a truth, to know what it is, to understand it, and to love it, are … Continue reading →

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A Long Way We Have Come, Farther Yet We Must Roam

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Christi

16×16″ oil on canvas September 1, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following stanzas from “The Hills” by George MacDonald: “And in my wanderings I did meet Another searching too: The dawning hope, the shared quest Our thoughts … Continue reading →

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