Her text, Revelations of Divine Love, is the earliest known writing in English by a woman. After recovering she wrote about the experience, while devoting the rest of her life to spiritual contemplation as an anchoress willingly confined to a small room adjoined to a church, and providing spiritual counsel to the public from that room through a small window.
#Hdrtist for mac series#
"The title of these prints, All Shall Be Well, comes from English mystic and theologian Julian of Norwich, who at the age of thirty in May of 1373 had a series of visions while seriously ill and seemingly close to death that she took to be revelations from God. I painted this humble interpretation of the iconic image with reverence and sincerity, and a desire for it to transmit some of the love that went into it and the motherly love it symbolizes. As an artist I do believe that 'beauty will save the world', and there's great beauty and poetry in this enduring, popular celebration of divine motherhood. I think of the depth of the love between myself and my own mom, and the love between my son and his mama, and I see the imagery of Nuestra Madre/Our Mother as carrying some sense of that kind of love. As a feminine counterbalance to the patriarchal emphasis of much of Western religion, she is our heavenly Mother, la Madre del Cielo. The icon of La Guadalupana can represent, among other things, the idea of a celestial and loving maternal figure, a comforting presence both human and cosmic, natural and supernatural. In the words of Octavio Paz, she is "the consolation of the poor, the shield of the weak, the help of the oppressed". Almost a century earlier she'd adorned the banners of Zapata's revolutionary peasant armies, and a century before that was on Hidalgo's banners fighting for independence from Spain. One of my favorite t-shirts I wore in the late '90s had an image of Our Lady carrying an injured or dying cholo underneath the phrase "mi vida está en tus manos(my life is in your hands)". She could be seen at home and in the homes of friends, inside churches and on the outside of liquor stores, sometimes accompanied by tough-looking Old English letters or flowery script on clothing, blankets, lowriders, etc. In my own experience growing up in the southwestern US, the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was very familiar and seemingly ever-present. Totlazonantzin translates to "our beloved mother" in Nahuatl, and can be seen in the Nican Mopohua ("Here It Is Told"), the first recorded account of the appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe, written in the mid-1500s and first published in 1649.
If we love enough, we are going to light that fire in the hearts of others.” If we love each other enough, we will bear each other's faults and burdens. Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. "To work to increase our love for God and for our fellow man (and the two must go hand in hand), this is a lifetime job. And what is dangerous unselfishness if not self-sacrificing love? was assassinated he was helping striking sanitation workers, and in his last speeches he spoke of the dignity of labor and the importance of solidarity with other working people, of a kind of "dangerous unselfishness" described in the parable of the Good Samaritan. This is a trend that does not help build a world where it is easier for people to live or to love each other. Power and wealth continue to concentrate among a tiny few, while working people as a group steadily fall further into precarity. When we look at the world today and see that despite all the advancements much of our global family still suffers to some degree or another from poverty, exploitation, marginalization. Despite all our increasing digital connectedness we seem to be further separated and isolated in many ways. We are, nearly all of us, workers in some form or another, but that commonality gets overshadowed so often by cultural, racial, or various identity issues. Love, beauty, and work-all can be connected. I was raised with a sort of philosophy of work, where art making and creative labor can be a kind of prayer, where there can be beauty in striving to become better at whatever we do and in the giving of oneself in service to others. It follows a long tradition of Via Crucis/Path of Sorrows imagery in devotional western art, but I also saw it as a meditation on labor and mutuality. The image was inspired by a protestor I saw at an immigrant and worker rights march many years ago. These prints are adapted from an acrylic painting that I worked on over the last two years. There are three different color editions of this print: Printed on acid-free, 100% cotton, 330 gsm, Italian-made Revere paper.
Hand-pulled screenprints made with Tony Clough at Serio Press in Signed, titled, and numbered by the artist.
0 kommentar(er)
