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.

He Was No More

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Christi

14×17″ pastels on paper June 22, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Somnium Mystici: A Microcosm in Terza Rima by George MacDonald: He was no more. I laid me down and wept; I dared not follow him, … Continue reading →

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Leave You! But I Am So Happy With You!

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Christi

14×17″ watercolor on paper June 22, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the passage below from Phantastes by George MacDonald. There are some discrepancies in this illustration. The woman is supposed to be old and wise with young eyes, a maternal … Continue reading →

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The Voice of the North Wind

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Christi

9×12″ watercolor on paper August 1, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald: All the winds of heaven seemed to lay hold upon him, and buffet him hither … Continue reading →

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So Lies My Journey — On Into the Dark

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Christi

18×24″ oil on canvas July 4, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Within and Without by George MacDonald: So lies my journey — on into the dark! Without my will I find myself alive, And must go … Continue reading →

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Take Me Like a Child

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Christi

16×20″ oil on canvas July 8, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by “A Broken Prayer” from A Threefold Cord by George MacDonald, specifically the following passage: Oh, take me like a child, If thou hast made me for thyself, my God, … Continue reading →

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