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about
art/spirit/art
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an
introduction by Dr. Randi Davenport,
Associate Director, James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate
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art/spirit/art celebrates the physical manifestations of spirituality,
which are born at the intersection of intellect and love. The works of art
in this installation, and in its related programs, are premised on the
recognition that mind and spirit, although situated by culture, history,
politics, and power, are common human capacities. We celebrate the fact
that these capacities, no matter how mediated, reside in all of us, and we take
joy in the belief that these capacities arise everywhere.
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"Thinking,
analyzing, inventing are not anomalous acts," said Jorge Luis Borges,
"they are the normal respiration of intelligence."
This installation suggests, through earth, stone, wood, paper, and
clay, that the invisible and occult connections between heart and wisdom
can shimmer in our presence, that the "normal respiration of
intelligence" includes the creative life. After all, whatever
far-reaching effects this work may have in public life, in this show, in
its related programs, all of the works of art before you began in secret
and at a point of absolute tenderness: where air meets blood and bone,
where breath animates spirit, where spirit turns back to breath.
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art/spirit/art
Spirit
manifests in seven directions. Before you: foot, skull, upswept arm.
Below
you: earth, iron, fire, steel. Behind you: water, cloth, paper.
Above you:
horizons, voices, songs.
To either side of you: clay, wood, film, words.
Unspoken: the sacred made dense, like physical weight,
and at the same
time made light, shaped by silence and sound.
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