Springfield Road

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Springfield Road

40 x 40 acrylic on canvas

chuck: This work felt like a journey into the unknown. Perhaps the painting of the lines in the early stages of development is like living your life intentionally and in the moment. When you live on this side of your brain, you fully experience all of creation in that moment. As the painting developed, altered, taking many different turns with its essential story trying to emerge, the invisible structure came back from the history of the painting, to alter and frame the creation. Even in our wonderings into the unknown, there lies a spiritual structure and connection to all time.

Peg: Peeling off the resist and revealing the “fencing” was just like experiencing the barbed wire in Northern Ireland, the wire gets so in between the observer and the “landscape”. It becomes the object and what’s on the other side becomes distant and unreachable unknown.

Blessings

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blessings

30 x 30 acrylic on canvas

chuck + peg: This work has special meaning for us. It speaks to the potential we have as a community when we lift each other up rather than turn away when times are difficult. Reaching out a helping hand, asking nothing in return, can bring many blessings for both the giver and receiver. The light that comes from another’s blessing on our behalf during dark and uncertain times gives rise to new beginnings and blessings in return.

Genesis+Art at 19 Below Gallery

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Our show Works of Reconciliation opened at 19 Below Gallery in Kansas City's Art District Friday night and will be up thru the end of September.

Many thanks to those of you who stoppped by Friday night and for well wishes and encouragement.

Intruding Upon the Timeless

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Intruding Upon the Timeless

30 x 60 acrylic on canvas

peg: I was thinking about gratitude and wondering why we aren’t walking “gratitude journals.” I think it’s because to be grateful we have to be attentive and aware, and usually we human beings are neither. By focusing and noting all the things for which we are grateful, we flex our “attention muscles” and begin to notice all the little things that bring joy everyday.

chuck: This work began by reflecting on the word gratitude. The spiritual practice of gratitude can be considered a state of mind going even further to being a way of life. Gratitude links us in relationship to the divine in every part of creation. By practicing gratitude in both good and challenging experiences, we bless others and in turn are blessed. This personal and social renewal also opens our imagination – and more specifically, the imaginative intersection where spirit and artistic vision meet. By starting with gratitude, we risk reconnecting beauty to goodness and truth.

New Works of Reconciliation

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Our Opening in the Kansas City Cross Roads Art District is Friday August 6. Our work and story will be on public display thru the end of September. Dad Hoffman got a preview of our work and offered only slight criticism. 19 Below Gallery is located at 5 w 19th street kcmo.

Luther Seminary Annual Donor Celebration

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Genesis+Art Studio will be part of Luther Seminary's Annual Donor Celebration. The event Inspiration from God will be held at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota on Sunday September 19, 2010 at the Olson Campus Center.

Join us for our conversation titled: Faith and Art. Our World Canvas Project will be part of the community.

Hallmark Creative Leadership Symposium

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We'll be sharing our story and our work at the Hallmark Creative Symposium this fall at the Starlight Theater in Kansas City. We are part of several presentations over the course of two days. Our story is titled: Living In the Tension and will explore the healing power of art in building community and relationships. We'll be sharing our experiences and art from the time spent with the people of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Sacred Ties

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Sacred Ties

40 x 40 acrylic on canvas

peg: We wanted to paint something for John and Ye’s wedding that would not only honor two individuals and their uniqueness, but also honor what happens in a successful union of two people. The marriage relationship itself rises with a life all its own. The task becomes how to balance individual, opposing or different needs and still nurture and grow the relationship. If done with care, this third thing rising is not a burden, but a guiding light for both people.

chuck: We’ve painted with this color palette before, but little did we know that the theme would be part of a painting we created for our son John and his wife Ye’s wedding. As we venture to Shanghai, China for the ceremony, we will encounter the connection being made between families as well as cultures. Honoring and nurturing the best in another gives rise to our greatest self. The poetry of John O’Donohue expresses it this way, Awaken your spirit to adventure; Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk; Soon you will be home in a new rhythm, For your soul senses the world that awaits you.

Dabar

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Dabar

72 x 72 acrylic on canvas

chuck + peg: Dabar is the Hebrew (Aramaic) word for “word.” The Hebrew concept of ‘word’ is far more dynamic than the Greek conception. Dabar is the word that is the divine creative energy. All of creation contains the living wisdom of Dabar with the creative energy flowing through all things, all time and all space. In Genesis, the story tells us, that God spoke and then the powerful beings of creation – light and darkness, sun and moon–into existence. Dabar, which is translated as ‘word’, implies deeds and actions, not just words. This creative energy or word of God we believe is still active today–it is constantly creating and inviting us (all beings) to participate in this continuous process.