The Great Vision of Black Elk
Based on a paragraph from the Great Vision of Black Elk, an Oglala Lakota Sioux shaman and medicine man of the late 1800s, this cutting was commissioned by Sister Diane,…
Communitas Christi “Window” Synchronicity
In perhaps my most intense collaboration, I met personally with 9 members of “Communitas Christi,” a small Catholic Charismatic Community who at that time worshipped in an art classroom next to the gymnasium of a Catholic school in San Anselmo, CA. The participants each gave me input on symbols they thought representative of their group, and there was a great range, from Native American to Asian, to Franciscan to a praying figure from the catacombs of Rome...
Green Man Cranach Synchronicity
This cutting of the Wittenberg City Church Altarpiece was developed for the first West Coast Lutherhostel (for Lutheran Seniors, at Mt. Cross Camp in the Santa Cruz mountains) by request of the speaker for that week, President Tim Lull of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley. Dr. Lull had a study full of art books and is a scholar of Martin Luther and his times, including Luther’s companion the artist Lucas Cranach, a painter of the Reformation.
Nativity Triptych (Christmas 1993)
My first design came out of a desire of the Broadmoor Community Church Arts Committee to do a Nativity Triptych (manger scene in three panels) to go behind the altar.…