Genesis+Art

Friday, August 5, 2011

Get Inspired

Weaving at the Van Life Center, Turkey

FROM OUR STUDIO:

Thursday 6 October, 2011 The New Jerusalem Series
A reception and Art Exhibit featuring our work will be part of the Lutheran Mideast Development Musical Gala. Plymouth Congregational Church, Guild Hall 1900 Nicollet Avenue . Minneapolis 55403 7:00pm

Tickets are $45. For more information contact Erica Oswald at 651.457.6541 lutheran-mideast.org

Genesis+Art will be exhibiting their New Jerusalem Series at the Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis and will be part of a fund raising concert. Join us for an evening of music and art to benefit Lutheran Mideast Development. LMD is inseparable from the history of the modern Middle East. Through famine, epidemic, earthquake and war, LMD has stood fast with the Kurdish, Persian, Arab, Turkish, Armenian, Assyrian and Jewish people, who together weave the human tapestry of this troubled region. Through it all, LMD strives to bring peace and wholeness to the communities it serves. LMD has a special emphasis on the Kurds, a nation of more than 20 million people living across the frontiers of the Middle East.

The concert will feature violinist Jennifer Curtis; Brahms, Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano in G major, Op. 78. George Enescu, Airs in Romanian Folk style and original compositions and improvisations. Duo Pianos with Matthew Hand and Vince Phillips; Works for two pianos including Symphonic Dance No. 1, Op. 45 by Sergei Rachmaninoff and the Grieg/Mozart Sonata for two pianos.

Three Gates

FROM OUR JOURNAL PAGES:

Chuck + Peg: Orange is one of the healing colors and is also thought that it stimulates enthusiasm and creativity. Orange means vitality with endurance. Orange spiritually effects our creativity, harmony, passion, freedom and intuition. Three gates reside on each side of the New Jerusalem and speak to the virtues of faith, hope and love. We’re not sure that we set out on this path when we began painting, but considering it’s meanings and symbols, coming out of a world and culture of uncertain gray, it gives us hope for the future.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Nephesh

FROM OUR JOURNAL PAGES:

We named our studio Genesis + Art for a number of reasons one of which is the creation story found in the Tanakh. The mysterious creation story connected with our imaginations. I don’t believe that the seven days of Genesis were seven twenty four hour days or even seven isolated periods of time, no matter how long, but rather seven pulses of illumination and darkness, of creation and rest, of knowing and unknowing, of expansion and contraction, all of which continue into the present. In our own creative process, we are reminded of its new beginning in the divine creation.

Prayer is relaxing into the mystery of being loved by God.

FROM OUR JOURNAL PAGES:

I’m not sure where I first read or heard the thought that prayer is relaxing into the mystery of being loved by God, but the essence of its meaning for me has remained. It gave me a different way to think and feel about prayer. I had always thought prayer was something you recited or petitions for needs, all of which certainly are forms of prayer. But this reflection on prayer seems to ask me just to be present. In this place I come to know that God loves me, even with a veil of uncertain mystery. Relaxing into the presence of the divine creates a space for relationship that God desires from me.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Orienting ourselves in the world

FROM OUR JOURNAL PAGES:

The visible is how we orient ourselves in the world. It remains our principle source of information about the world. Art reminds us of what is absent. What we don’t see anymore. Art is not only a mnemonic device used to remember events in our time here. Art addresses a larger memory. A memory less topical, art reminds us not only of what we don’t know but what we recognize as familiar.

Chicago inspiration

FROM OUR JOURNAL PAGES:

We took a trip to Chicago recently and was inspired by the creativity that can be found in this Midwestern city. The architecture danced together in harmony between monolithic, historical and contemporary statements. The art museums, restaurants and their cuisine, theatre, old hotels and people inspired, fed, excited and added ingredients to our creative soup for which we are grateful.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

A quote from Frederick Buechner

FROM OUR JOURNAL PAGES:

I came across Buechner's quote in my journal from long ago and still find his words rich with meaning for me. "I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part of who we are and is buried deep in all of us as a source of wisdom and strength and healing which we can draw upon or, with our terrible freedom, not draw upon as we choose. I think that among other things all real art comes from that deepest self - painting, writing music, dance, all of it that in some way nourishes the spirit. " — Frederick Buechner