St. Augustine in His Study
11×14″ acrylic on canvas
February 7, 2013
Inspired by the following passage from Augustine’s Confessions (11.2.3):
“Lord, perfect me, and open those pages to me. Behold, your voice is my joy, your voice is above a flood of pleasures….
Do not forsake your gifts, and do not despise this your plant which thirsts for you.”
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.
