This Book Changed My Affections
8×10″ charcoal and colored pencil on paper
January 5, 2013
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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…. This work contains an exhortation to philosophy and is called Hortensius.
This book changed my affections. It turned my prayers to you, Lord, and caused me to have different purposes and desires.
Confessions (3.4.7)
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.
