ARTIST STATEMENT

We long for more than the world can offer us.  This longing drives us to art museums and galleries, looking for something to stir our hearts when we tire of the mundane.  We search for pieces that will answer our burning questions so we may say with satisfaction, "Ah, yes, at last.  This is what I was looking for all along."

But art cannot satisfy our longings.  After all, art is only mixed pigment on a piece of stretched fabric.  Instead, it stirs up the longing in our hearts even more.  Art steals from us our apathy, gives to us our restlessness, and asks, "What are you going to do about it?"

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We long for more than the world can offer us because God made us from and for His heart.  Our greatest tragedy, restlessness, entered when we turned from Him, our true home.

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O felix culpa!

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Rejoice in hope because He left us not orphan, abandoned to our restlessness.  Jesus sought us, became one of us, accepted our death (the consequence of our rejection), and broke the bonds of that consequence by rising from death.  He did all this to say, "My heart is still yours.  Will you come home?"

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Viewing this artwork, I hope you hear His question, "Will you come home?" spoken in the tender silence of your heart.

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Exsultet !  At last !