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6 Sep 2023

Art as Incarnation

by markart | posted in: Inspirational, Making Art, Recommended Books, The Artist's Life, The Table of Creation | 2

When I have created something, I think of the mysterious thoughts and moves within a person forming an idea, all that has gone before to make this person arrange mental concepts, images, formulae, memories of sounds which excite the hope of birthing something into the world. The energy of that interior excitement causes bodily action which changes or remixes the exterior world resulting in the becoming of something which was not there before. It is spirit incarnating materiality.

22 Apr 2023

Warning and Prayer

by markart | posted in: Actions, Faith, Inspirational, Poetic, Recommended Books | 2

I am reading Christians Against Christianity by Obery M. Hendricks Jr., a book that I have to close between chapters to calm myself down in anguish over the hijacking and reversal of Christ-following. Hendricks, like me, came from an evangelical … Continued

24 Mar 2023

Childlikeness Is Better

by markart | posted in: Actions, Contemplative, Inspirational, The Artist's Life | 4

I have always been aware of and preferred my “original self”. It is the free self which I experienced as a child. I was fortunate to have parents who embraced spirituality in all that they did, including parenting. It was … Continued

14 Jul 2022

Portals to God

by markart | posted in: Actions, Contemplative, Inspirational, The Artist's Life | 0

I appreciate what you do for and give to me, but you are more than what you give and do. You are a portal to God to the extent that you allow yourself to be. Every human is an extension of God to one another and to all Creation but not all are aware of the capacity for Good that this gives them

6 Jan 2021

Getting Wealth

by markart | posted in: Actions, Faith, Inspirational, The Artist's Life | 2

. . . even if race had not been invented as a way of eliminating competition, our view would still be that the emphasis on devoting one’s life to material gain is an incomplete view of humanity.

27 Feb 2016

Your Containers Or Your Life

by markart | posted in: Arts & Theology, Inspirational, Visual Arts | 0

My mixed media image has us sitting out with the containers. But, wouldn’t you like to see what that design is like on the layer behind? There is a story about a wedding celebration which went way beyond an afternoon … Continued