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OUTLINE
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TOPICS:
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An Approach
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Spirituality
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Mission
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Inner Impulse
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Signs & Symbols
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Beauty| Goodness
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Cosmic Image
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Presence
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Ideals
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Inspirations
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Insights
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Design Stages
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The Sacred
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Legacy
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Divinity & Wonder
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Imagination
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Copyright:
all images and text are
subject to approval by ArchAngel Publications
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‘ … We must lift our
horizons of aesthetic sensibilities by entering into the wondrous world of
beauty in our personal lives. What is the role of artists and our gift to
the Church and secondly to humankind?
Artists: poets,
writers, painters, sculptors, architects, musicians, actors and gold
crafters, silversmiths, and others embrace the unseen impulse for the
clean aeesthetic…’
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The integration of
Art and Architecture and
Faith
has become my lifetime obsession.
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[84.1]
ART • SPIRITUALITY •
MYSTICISM
Artists that create from a spiritual base irrespective of the subject
matter
want to distinguish spiritual
artistry from ‘
“Religious art”
Which is more pointed toward the subject matter
To full expression within the
worlds of:
“Contemplative Art”
“Sacred Art”
•We seek to explore and
nurture visual arts and the Christian Faith.
•Respect of the artistic
freedom and of the artist and at the same time honor
The religious sensitivities
and traditions of the church.
•Encourage visual artists in the Catholic Church to
use their creative gifts for the glory of God.
•Encourage individuals to
explore opportunities visual arts offer in their spiritual journey.
•Encourage conversations and
research in issues related to the visual arts, theology and culture.
•Become the gallery of choice
for spiritual artists who desire to exhibit in sacred space
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[84.2]
Art and Architecture: 1996 Notes
My mission as an architect and artist unfolds to
express joy in the “doing” of art and architecture.
Only my fear and false expectation keep me from the creation
of the true and holy work I so desperately purse and pray to accomplish.
“Expectations” feed the times of struggle, failure, and
moments of faith. In these sacred moments, I find the self-courage,
when faced with disappointment “expectations”, for me,
are sacred vision a Light from Christ.
Art/ Architecture that is made to serve the ego, that
serves the self.
Expresses disorder, unhealthy compulsions, self-love,
self-pity, and sensuality. This work lacking in spirit, confines the true
image and suffocates the sacred vision [11/12/94].
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[84.3]
Architecture: an inner impulse
The artist and architect
writes, draws, paints, sings, designs, and builds:
Expressing the personal
experience of God’s Presence:
“This
burning love shapes a sacred art and architecture: revealing the splendor
of
The
Mystical Life Experience
That
is nurtured by the
Blessed
Mother.
Our
entire being enters the Christ Light: The Alpha and the Omega.”
God has entered the religious, musician, sculptor,
painter, author, and architect.
Christ has taken on human flesh: Transforming the
expressions of the Artist into images reflecting the face-to-face
encounter with Christ.
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[84.4] Architecture: signs and
symbols
1/ Creation sends signs and symbols to sanctify our
minds, spirits, and hands.
2/ Teaching that our work is but cries of a humble
spirit yearning to return to the source of life.
3/ The language of creation is a spiritual language a
song ,a poem, a picture we must reach out with open minds
and hands.
4/ The images presented in any devotional work, flow
from the Daily Prayer Hour spent in the Divine Presence.
The words and images of
scripture provide our pathway to Christ where, at prayer, we enter the splendor
of Liturgical Time:
Transformed by Christ in the Sacrament of the Present
Moment: The Past-Future is made
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[84.5] The Extraordinary BEAUTY, GOODNESS
1/ Artists, architects holy persons pursue the
beautiful . Committed to fulfill a vision of an authentic mind and heart
filled with the ideas of God.
2/ Ideas that a reflection of a compelling experience
of the spirit expressed in paint, stone, sketch, word, and song.
3/ Creating individual works of Art, Architecture,
Sculpture, Music, Tapestries, Machines and Literature are the prayers of
the inner spirit longing for unity and harmony, and communion in the
creator.
4/ These are but cries of the artist seeking union with
the Creator
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[84.6] The Extraordinary THE COSMIC IMAGE
1/ Humankind is given a
glimpse of the divine within the order and wonder of the universe..
2/ This supernatural truth
is revealed and re-discovered in nature, events, things, and people.
Cultures throughout human
history find expression of the “belief” in the making of places and
spaces: Sanctuaries for public worship and prayer.
3/ The desire to re-create
the “Cosmic Image” in a specific time and place is an ancient yearning in
the spirit of humankind.
4/ Religions do not “create”
holy places but through rites and rituals they teach that sacred space
can be “consecrated” to acknowledge God in time and place:
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[84.7] The Extraordinary presence
1/ Objects that are placed
or found within holy places, sculpture, paintings, carvings, tapestries, stained-glass
windows, relics of the saints, awaken us of the presence of God.
2/ Sacred space embraces the
supernatural, the Divine, the Holy Presence.
3/ Presence: The point in time and space where The
Human and The Divine intersect and
4/ Christ is Present in a special way forming within
the human mind and spirit.
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[84.8] ART ARCHITECTURE: MY IDEALS
1/Art senses nature and life largely through a form of
contemplation, meditation, and prayer.
2/Thoughts & emotions become visual forms and are reflected
in the artist’s inward experience:
a spiritual event.
3/The task of the artist is the transformation of these
reflections relying on Divine Grace for the creation of a work.
4/Creative works, are often, but not always,
spontaneous.
5/ The process includes, extended periods of doing and
thinking of “nothing” ,
where the production of a
work that is an imitation of some
notion, idea, or distraction often ends in
mediocrity.
6/ Art is “doing” things and waiting: waiting for Grace to enter &
transform feelings /emotions into Architecture. 7/Where the inner impulses emerge as a clean aesthetic form.
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[84.9]
ART/ARCHITECTURE: RESEARCH: INSPIRATION
It would be a life of sin if we did not respond to our
spiritual urgings:
we must create from the feelings that rise up within
our hearts.
our duty is to build a world of creative images,
inspired thoughts, and sacred actions.
These yearnings are sacred flowing from the source of
Great Goodness.
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[84.10] ART/ARCHITECTURE: INSIGHTS
Reflection: The Legacy?
Each Architect, in some point in time, is called come
to a personal, if not a corporate, understanding of what is it that we
do, as architects, in terms of contribution, service, & value.
What then is to be our personal and collective legacy?
Whatever the approach, or theory, the Architect chooses
to align in the creation of space it would include response to the
“yearning” deep within the creative spirit and the demands of making an
architectural place.
[ 84.10a] Meditation: the Architecture
Architecture in terms of work, philosophy, and ideals
is an Architecture that lifts the spirits of people; that draws out the
goodness that is inside of them.
An Architecture that enables people to feel good and to
enjoy themselves, and be spiritually awakened.
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[84.11] ART/ARCHITECTURE: DESIGNER’S ROLE
Reflection: The Architect
The fundamental role of an Architect is to awaken
creative design, and the “listening” ears to the people, places, things,
and resources that have been provided.
There are those who come to Architecture with theory
bursting into geometric shapes and planes making intellectual space and
place.
There are those who come to Architecture with associations
of forms and images that call to be seen and adored in the gaze of the
powerful.
There are those who come to Architecture seeking to
discover the presence of the spontaneous positive gestures, whose only
purpose is to reveal the concept that is latent in this time and this
place. Then, there are those who come to Architecture with nothing of
value.
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[84.12] ART/ARCHITECTURE: talent, discipline, & genetics
There are those who come to Architecture* with theory
bursting into geometric shapes making intellectual space and place.
There are those who come to Architecture with personal
associations of forms and images that call to be seen and adored in the
gaze of the powerful.
There are those who come to Architecture seeking to
discover the presence of the spontaneous positive gestures, whose only
purpose is to reveal the concept that is latent in this time and this
place.
There are those who come to Architecture with nothing
of value.
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[84.13] ART/ARCHITECTURE:
MYSTERY and CREATIVITY
There is a depth of
meaning…an underside… a hidden…almost instinctual side to every thing we
do…everything we do has a meaning more than can be seen at the surface of
things…
God, in a way, has made the whole world a symbol:
Through the images of the stars, winds, sky, trees, people, places,
dreams, memories, ideas these are the sacred things we experience to
discover our way to the holy and the divine. We, in a way, do not live by what we see, but by what we believe.
We become a people who see in the ordinary things of life,
simplicity, solitude, and silence. The Presence of God. (A belief system
such as this does not necessarily deny “evidence- facts-science-
technology”. This way of thinking does allow for the mystery and
“supernatural” forces released in creative thought and a spirituality
centered in
“creativity”.
Holiness is our sacred journey of trust …it is mystical…and at the
same time personal and firmly anchored in the day-to-day duties and
activities lived out in daily life in the service of others. Awareness of Christ Light …the
reality of Presence …allows one to become a master to fulfill God’s hope
that has been placed within you while in the womb.
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[84.14] ART/ARCHITECTURE: RESEARCH THEORY
The stages of Designing by Experience:
+OBSERVING
CASES+
+FORMULATING CONCEPTS+
+DESIGNING STRUCTURES AND PRODUCTS+
‘ Design
forced by a theory based upon fictions severely limits the performance of
the designer. Work forced by a theory based upon fictions is irrelevant. Each
problem waiting to be solved offers unique opportunities and solutions.
This process of the “cycle
of problem to solution(s)” reveals the talent of the designer to “see”
and to “identify” concepts*.
Notions and theories- insights from the designer-artisan’s mind- are necessary
“generalizations” but are rare products among those who are the “doers” in the drafting rooms.
Ordinarily, the details dominate the mediocre mind. Generalizations
standing alone are become clichés. Details alone become “chitchat”,
“gossip”, “rumor”, or little more than “tittle-tattle”: without a theory
these become speculations of an undisciplined mind. ‘Generalizations
require supporting details and details must fit into whole
generalizations and the details are a sine qua non [or outcomes]
combination in education.’*
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[84.15]
The sacred
The idea of the Sacred is a
“true reality” which can be experience within the inner life.
An “In-breaking” that may well
“burst” into daily life and find expression in music, paint, stone.
Phenomenology: Jakob Friedrich Fries, Rudolf Otto,
Mircea Eliade.
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[ 84.16]ARCHITECTURE:
RESPONSIBILITY & LEGACY
Each Architect, in some point in time, is called come
to a personal, if not a corporate, understanding of what is it that we
do, as architects, in terms of contribution, service, and value.
What then is our personal and collective legacy?
·Whatever
the approach, or theory, the Architect chooses to align in the creation
of space it would include response to the “yearning” deep within the
creative spirit and the demands of making an architectural place.
·Architecture
in terms of work, philosophy, ideals is an Architecture that lifts the
spirits of people...that draws out the goodness that is inside…an
Architecture that enables people to feel good to enjoy themselves, and be
spiritually awakened.
· The
fundamental role of an Architect is to awaken creative design, and the
“listening” ears of a brother who cares for the people, places, things,
and resources that have been provided
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[84.17]
DIVINITY, CREATION, AND WONDER,
Humankind
is given a glimpse of the Divine within the order and wonder of Creation.
This supernatural truth is revealed and re-discovered in nature, events,
things, and people.
Cultures
throughout human history find expression of “belief” in the making of
places and spaces … Sanctuaries for public worship and prayer. The desire
to re-create the “Cosmic Image” in a specific time and place is an
ancient yearning in the spirit of humankind.
Religions
do not “create” holy places. Through Rites and Rituals they teach that
sacred space can be imaged by “consecrated” to acknowledge God in Time
and Space : Sacred Space that is in harmony with the Cosmic Image.
Objects
that are placed or found within holy places: Sculpture, paintings,
carvings, tapestries, stained glass windows, relics of the saints, remind
us of the Presence of God.
The personal histories and
accomplishments of individual artists and architects form the abstract
instruments through which the Spirit of the Creator sanctifies and makes
present the image of God in sacred works of art and architecture:
Sanctified persons who have been give grace to make Beauty.
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[84.18] creative imagination
Artists and
Architects have the responsibility to create authentic beauty in Church
building.
Artists and Architects must be
committed to fulfill the vision of an authentic spirit filled with notions and ideas that flow from
the sacred:
…Sacred ideas are the reflection of an important,
compelling inner experience from the artist’s spirit expressed in paint
and stone, space and form, word and sound.
Artists and Architects, holy persons pursue the
beautiful:
… Creating individual works of Sacred Art,
Architecture, Sculpture, Music, and Literature, prayers of the inner
spirit longing for unity and harmony, and communion with Christ.
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