I like to think of this work like a web or nest. Over the past several years I have been collecting fragments and pieces, glimpses and flashes from my day to day life. These are woven together from seasons in the year and seasons in myself:  a kind of palmiest of marks, images, textures, colors, and materials. As I find myself pushed to personal, interpersonal, and environmental fragmentation and isolation there is a true and beautiful voice calling us toward affection, attention, integration, care, and dependence. For me this work is a way to pay attention, to grow in affection, to see the world charged with the presence of Christ, but I hope they also begin to form a context, perhaps a place to belong.  

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