11×14″ watercolor on paper
September 9, 2012
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Inspired by the following passage from Lilith by George MacDonald:
“You cannot go near her,” she said. “She is far away from us, afar in the hell of her self-consciousness.
The central fire of the universe is radiating into her the knowledge of good and evil, the knowledge of what she is. She sees at last the good she is not, the evil she is.
She knows that she is herself the fire in which she is burning, but she does not know that the Light of Life is the heart of that fire.
Her torment is that she is what she is.”
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.
