The Holy Spirit pours into the beginning of Luke’s Gospel, embodied by angels and the singing, leaping responses that human beings make to them. When the angels arrive its with a wildness and strangeness that has mutating effects on the people who encounter them. An old man falls silent, an old woman becomes pregnant, a … Continue reading Luke 1:1-56 Suddenly the Spirit is Talking to Everybody
I used to make illuminated text workbooks for kids, and I decided to revive the practice in my work with the kids of St. John's, Worthington. Since this is the year of the Diocese of Southern Ohio's Luke/Acts Big Read, I decided to make one for the beginning of Luke. Hopefully I'll keep up the … Continue reading Illuminated Text Workbook for Luke 1:5-25
Oil on canvas, 11" x 14". God of the weed spikes and white flowers, and half-dusk from the shadows of trees, help us to shatter carefully arranged light, the idea that everything must have its place, the insistence on more symmetry than you require.
Just as the invocations that I've written are a kind of collage, the paintings that I've made for this series have some aspect of collage about them as well. Nothing is cut out or added to this - it's all oil on canvas. But the shapes, the forms, the colors, are gathered from the … Continue reading Invocation #2
I'm part of a group show that will be opening at Saint Philip's Episcopal Church in Columbus, OH on May 19th. We drew on William Blake's poem "Pentecost" for the theme and title of the show, which we're calling Unless the heart catch fire. Playing with that theme, I thought about the many morning walks … Continue reading Invocation #1
KPB Stevens 