Opus Cordis: Reflections of a Contemporary Artist Embracing the Drama of Religious Imagery

Abstract

As a painter and printmaker, I am compelled by Biblical narrative that I express in a contemporary idiom. I often work with images of pilgrimage, lamentation, betrayal and absolution. Such archetypal themes flesh out parable and reveal to me the ancient stories, once again reborn, in our world of dissonance and division. These sacred stories, in their mythic and consuming drama, are forever played out in our most inward journeys. The moment of crucifixion or transfiguration is not ancient history, but reenacted anew within each soul in its own way. Through the work of my hands I am petitioning an otherness. The creative act becomes an Opus Cordis, a work of the heart. A dialogue begins.