Liminalescence

Images are formed in my mind all the time. I allow most to drift on past like cottonwood seeds that float lazily by me on a late spring day, but others are received with great attention and import. I refer to this image above as the Beach Ball Triptych and thanks to professional photographer Sarah Petty and her team, they allowed me to share my vision enough to render it for all to see in this series of images. I suppose the notion of playing with a beach ball in a pool has remained in my memory from my days as a boy playing in my best buddy Stevie's pool. In the first frame, a girl takes hold of the beach ball. Something within compels her to try and push it down below the surface and in the second frame, you can feel the resistance and futility as the girl encounters unbalanced buoyancy and the fierce properties of water.  Though she continues this task with stubborn determination, eventually the force of displaced water responds and WHOOSH! The ball surges back up and create...

Today is the feast of Corpus Christi or The Body of Christ. It's an occasion within the church year that represents how Jesus has come to fulfill the greatest hunger and thirst for what is most substantial in this life. The Eucharist (Greek for "Thanksgiving) within the mass of the faithful is viewed as the "source and summit" of the Christian life by the church. In other words, the consecrated bread and wine that become the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ hold the greatest importance and value for his followers. In fact, so important are the symbols of wheat and wine that no church is allowed to substitute any other ingredient such as rice or barley, even if these items more accurately represent what any given culture uses to make its most essential meals with. During this COVID19 pandemic, masses have only up until this past weekend been unavailable to the faithful. This created a tremendous conundrum for a church that identifies going to mass...