images and chants from parts to the whole
This short art film is just a mythical sketch about what has been happening since the Big Bang until now. Just a sketch full of rough edges from my thinking that God is making more than we realize, but that we have over the last few millennia begun to observe the process.
Six months in the making, the film started with the original painting from thoughts about being individual parts of a greater whole. This inspired a blog post from which I selected 10 phrases to make non-traditional choral expressions about truths we are endeavoring to learn. You will hear the words of these phrases assemble in the film as follows:
“Love
This love ethic, this energy, this life makes me a working part of the greater Body.
Not just emotion, the love ethic is an orientation to life.
Minute deed and word in the little place where we live moves the larger whole;
Minute parts harmonizing with others exponentially over time.
The cumulative constancy of small particles over time moves the greater body along;
The wonder that my word and deed touches someone somewhere now or in the future.
Minute deeds feed the unstoppable ground swell of goodness and life
Like mustard seed.
We are seeds in exponential growth of new creation covering the earth as the waters cover the sea.
To lay down your life for others, there is the greatest love.”
