This curious image is the first I created during the Art & Soul conference I attended this past Friday and Saturday.
It is an "artistic response" to Lectio Devina. This is a method best explicated by Benedict in his Rule. You slowly read a passage of scripture (preferably out loud), listening "with the ears of the heart" for a word or phrase that speaks to you. Then you meditate on that phrase, letting associations pass through your mind without judgment. Then you pray in response to those associations. In this case, our art was our prayer.
The passage of scripture we were responding to was the first 9 verses of Psalm 33. The phrase that spoke to me was "all your skill", in the second half of verse 3.
Not so much an image intended here (though there may be hints); more the process of a swirling writing instrument (in this case, chalk), and whole-hearted liberation.
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