Borderless World

FROM OUR JOURNAL PAGES:

This painting had a unique significance for us because we knew for whom it was being birthed before we started. Most often we create paintings together without knowing who will bring it home to their own space.The fact that it was created for Pam Kelley’s birthday has even more meaning. Birthing has been a reoccurring theme for us. We refer to our art as birthing images, so honoring the birth of Pam into the world in a painting, takes on the mystical wonder of creation.

Peg: My vision for the painting centered around the dawn of creation. Symbols, language and possibiity emerge into the darkness, bringing light, carrying the potential for communication and creativity. The cerulean blues cannot contain the energy and strength of the written word and the symbolic languages burst forth with a spirit of their own. Creation truly imagines a borderless world of peace and inclusion.

Chuck: The work brought me to the place of wonder and mystery of ongoing creation. Pam uses language to express and birth her ideas into the world, and all of these thoughts and prayers went into this piece. My thoughts and reflections centered about creation coming out of darkness. This became the birthing of something new. The new being hope for a borderless world, a new world that emerges in God’s continuing creation. Letter forms stream from the light with the hope for new dialogues that bridge differences and change to a healthy, mutual world, celebrating diversity and the harmony that can be created together.

The painting for us has become a contemplation of creation in space and time, visually depicted for all to contemplate the ongoing formation of the universe, our hearts, minds and spirits.