Signs and Wonderings - A Disciple's Journey

 

 

Signs and Wonderings – A Disciple’s Journey 

Mens Christi (Mind of Christ)

Sonrise

The Sower

Signs and Wonderings

Writes of Passage

By Tom Wachunas 

    …The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment: “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:14-16

   EXHIBIT: Signs and Wonderings – A Disciple’s Journey, art by Tom Wachunas / Through July 23 at Patina Arts Centre, 324 Cleveland Avenue NW, downtown Canton / OPENING on FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. / Viewing hours: Thursdays 12:00-8:00 p.m./ Saturdays 12:00 to 9:00 p.m./ Sundays 12:00-4:00 p.m. / ALSO on First Friday, JULY 1, 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m

THANK YOU, Alaska Thompson, Director of Patina Arts Centre, for your support and great work in making this exhibit happen!

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   These days, none of us needs to settle for merely imagining the ethos of human society as confused and conflicted, fraught and frustrated. With fists clenched and eyes clouded by tears, we writhe in our cultural wrecking and reckoning. This has been our earthbound reality for a very long time.

   These days, Charles Dickens’ anaphoric “it was…” in the classic opening of his A Tale of Two Cities surely lives on as a haunting, potent anthem of our NOW. It IS the best of times, it IS the worst of times, it IS the age of wisdom, it IS the age of foolishness, it IS the epoch of belief, it IS the epoch of incredulity, it IS the season of Light, it IS the season of Darkness, it IS the spring of hope, it IS the winter of despair…

   Most of my art of the past 20+ years has been in the form of painterly mixed- media assemblages - what I have often called ‘spiritual tableaux.’ They illustrate – sometimes literally, sometimes metaphorically - a continuing realization and loving embrace of Biblical and Christocentric content.

    This exhibit presents many tactile narratives, written in a language of the heart. Here is a codified archaeology of my soul as it continues to straddle or cross boundaries, at once daunting and joyous, between struggle and surrender, between the accessible and the unknowable, between the mundane and the mystical. Ultimately, these pieces symbolize aspiration, inspiration, faith, and discovery.

   And so it is that once upon a time I came to truly know that Jesus Christ was not a fiction, not a liar, not a lunatic. He was exactly who he said he was, and still is: God incarnate.

   These days, He calls, I follow. And stumble. A lot.