8×10″ pastels on paper
December 24, 2012
A drawing of my daughter.
Keep Thou Thy Soul Translucent
9×12″ watercolor on paper
January 9, 2013
Inspired the following passage from George MacDonald’s Robert Falconer:
Men call the shadow, thrown upon the universe where their own dusky souls come between it and the eternal sun, ‘life’, and then mourn that it should be less bright than the hopes of their childhood.
Keep thou thy soul translucent, that thou mayest never see its shadow; at least never abuse thyself with the philosophy which calls that shadow life.
Or, rather would I say, become thou pure in heart, and thou shalt see God, whose vision alone is life.
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The Peace of Wild Things
7×9″ watercolor on paper
December 26, 2012
Inspired by the poem “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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Hope Beat Violently in My Heart
11×14″ oil on canvas
September 7, 2012
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Inspired by a passage in Phantastes by George MacDonald, from which the title takes its name.