BEAUTY IN THE BROKEN

I have never been one to make purely abstract work. I deeply love abstraction as an art style; it is by far my favorite to see in museums, and is the majority of what I collect from fellow artists. However, creating it myself always felt flat and meaningless. My work most often comes from a place of contemplation and  intentional decision making. Yet there was a period of time where I found myself stuck, unable to create. I came to realize that, as opposed to my normal practice, thinking about what I was making was flat and felt meaningless. I had some deep emotional work that I needed to feel through creative practice. So I did an experiment, and made an abstract painting that allowed my emotions and my intuition to drive. And then I made another.  And another. I found that despite the brokenness I was walking through, and the shattered imagery that surfaced within the paintings, there was a beauty, a luminous quality, that I hadn’t specifically intended in the work.  God was present and working even in the brokenness.  He was in fact working through the brokenness.