Hilma af Klimt – “egoless consciousness”?
April 13th, 2019
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/hilma-af-klints-visionary-paintings I’m so fascinated by this artist. Swedish painter Hilma Af Klimt died in 1944 and made her work mostly in secret. The reviewer’s idea of her work transcending Western tropes of the avant-garde (who invented abstract painting first, blah blah) is kind of fun. More interesting to me is the motivation to make her
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Unveiling – Commission for Shoreline Christian School
April 6th, 2019
On Thursday April 4 2019, we unveiled a commissioned artwork I’ve been working on for several months at Shoreline Christian School. Zoom In / Zoom Out highlights the paths and places contributed by kids, parents, and staff of the SCS community, orbiting around and intersecting with the school at the center. The event had an
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InterFaith Journey – A Walking Exploration of the Cultural Strata of Seattle’s Streets
March 22nd, 2019
On Monday March 18, 2019, I led a group of sojourners around Seattle for the Post-Conference one-day Journey for Spiritual Directors International. We did a series of contemplative walks throughout the city, taking in the richness and beauty of the area, while learning of its histories – what I described as the “strata” of the city’s
Video – A Response to Events in Christchurch NZ
March 19th, 2019
In my work at Spiritual Directors International, I had the honor of interviewing and putting together this video meditation of spiritual teachers speaking out against the continued horrors of white nationalism and murdering of innocents in their houses of worship. I hope you’ll watch, and I hope we will act, in love and truth, to
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I’m hosting a podcast for Spiritual Directors International
February 13th, 2019
Hey there friends, I’m foraying into a new medium – podcasts! In my work at Spiritual Directors International (SDI) – I’m now recording and hosting a weekly podcast called SDI Encounters. It’s about our work at SDI. SDI is a learning community for people who identify as spiritual companions. What’s a spiritual companion? Simply, it’s
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Here, Illuminated
December 27th, 2018
One recent morning, I woke at 4:30. I am an early riser, but not this early. My body was fatigued, my eyes groggy, yet my mind decides it’s time to turn on. This morning I don’t resist. I get out of bed and go make coffee to take out to the studio. Usually I journal,
that which is
December 23rd, 2018
This drawing began with crumpling up the paper. Upon unfolding and attempting to flatten the paper, the paper’s original sharpness and crispness is lost, and one is left with a surface that is softened and flawed. The creases mar the surface and are impossible to avoid. Rather than begin a drawing with a fresh sheet
within my darkest night
December 7th, 2018
This Advent season feels especially acute, and frustrating. Every day there is a new report, a new study, a new policy, that steers us towards climate doom. Trying to fathom and live within this truth is almost unbearable. And yet, we cannot wait. What is imagined as a far-off restoration, what is dreamed as salvation,
the way of holiness
December 2nd, 2018
Phoebe Palmer – Letting go of the “great and undefinable exercise” and moving into the “Way of Holiness” – “…that entire devotion of heart and life to God should be the absorbing subject of the succeeding pilgrimage of life.” This concept – “being holy” – can seem daunting, or even viewed negatively. Typically, it would
On Arriving
November 22nd, 2018
Moonrise, Cowlitz Park – oil on canvas – 30″ x 22″ – 2018 “If there remains any vestige of self that can be aware of itself as “having arrived” and having “attained possession”, then it can be sure of the return of the old dread, the old night, the old nothingness, until all self-sufficiency and