Wow! That was a quick trip!

Just got back from the Omaha area this afternoon. I left yesterday around 8am and was back in Rushville by 4pm. The point...oh yes the point, the reason why I went... My good, good friend Mike invited me to come out and speak with one of the classes he teaches at Nebraska Christian College. The class, Interpreting Contemporary Culture was a fantastic group to dialog with. We talked and chewed on a variety of thoughts and questions related to the role of visual arts in our world today. I certainly could get used to working with students at the university level...

And now, (pause) in closing (pause and deep sigh) I would like to thank everyone who made this possible...sorry, I found this little last bit amusing as I was collecting my thoughts. Maybe I'm still in bit of a driving coma.

Thanks again you guys. I really had a great time. Who knows, maybe a piece of sculpture will end up on the campus of NCC some day.

Here are a few links to check out if you want to dig a bit deeper.

www.artspastor.blogspot.com
www.woostercollective.com
www.arrestedmotion.com
www.arthouseamerica.com
www.internationalartsmovment.org
www.ordinaryneighbor.blogspot.com
www.culture-making.com

New photos

Just a few shots that were recently taken by my good friend Tonya. Still not sure if they will be painted or not.
The anvil piece is slowly moving along with several others on the back burner.

News...update

Although I have not finished the paint on the boats piece I had to begin work on a new piece. And yes, the boats will be finished by the end of this month...they have to be. I am submitting it for possible display in an upcoming show out of state.

This photo shows the early stages of the first of two sculptures that will utilize a Doric/Ionic column. The other will support a bench vise. Want to know more, well just ask.

love, peace and hair grease.

Finals Week...finally

These photos are from my "final exam" this semester. The piece is almost complete, just a few adjustments and paint.

Overall it is about 12' in length, 5' in width and height. All reclaimed lumber.

Really?

This is the short list of what remains to be completed on my current sculpture. Did I mention that the end of the semester is next week?

Creativity

That God is creative is a fact made indisputable by even the smallest shell in the darkest part of the deepest ocean. Never mind the mysteries of butterfly migration and quantum physics. Humanity is daily buried under a thundering avalanche of beauty, mystery and awe. There can be no argument: God is the original Creator, an artist mad with ideas and boundless energy. We, who are made in His Image, are most fully ourselves when we also create. All of us are spun from His being and glow with the spark of creativity… some of us blaze with it. In other words you don’t have to be an artist to create, just human. However some have been uniquely graced with this aspect of God’s image. Wild with delight and blazing with conviction, artists are often worshipers of the most daring kind. They are ones whose eyes are wide with wonder and the strangeness of it all. Almost painfully aware that every atom, sun-fish, and supernova practically shouts of God, they must invent new languages in a desperate attempt to describe what they see. For not an iota of this wild carnival should go unappreciated. Over familiarity is numb paralysis, and all the saints of God are called to be fiercely alive. We must daily be invigorated by the shock of awe and truth. Artists, prophets and visionaries have a knack for bringing exactly that to the world, and especially to the church. Yet these wild-eyed children of God, have long been orphaned by the family of Christ. -KC Boiler Room

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