The Easter Season is one of joy, founded in hope. Although all hope is based in our trust that God is alive and present to us in every moment of our lives, the various images submitted for this show remind us of all the ways that this truth may be revealed. We see God’s presence evoking hope in images from our environment and communities : in light, water, trees, sky, and animals (human and otherwise). And we we are reminded that we are in God’s presence in images from our worship and faith’s history.
The Easter story begins with the women’s discovery of the empty tomb, yet it continues each day as we live in the hope of its truth, and the realization of its meaning in our lives.
The story continues in images from our natural world as in Margaret Amada’s photo: “Las Acequias del Señor Siempre Van”, reminding us of the blessing of water; in Richard Bellows’ celebration of tree and sky “Through a Dark Tree; in Kelly Best Bourgeois’ painting of a tiny sparrow and in Catherine D. Kerr’s photo “Emerging from a fog”. We see hope in Kathy Bozzuti-Jones’ monoprint Reach”, and in her photo “Like This”; and in Claudia Smith’s paintings “Jubilation” and “Plumed”.
Hope can be evoked as we gaze upon and contemplate the stories of people of faith who came before us, as in Jeanne Harris Weaver’s Monument to “The Four Immortal Chaplains and All Chaplains”, as well as in the more familiar stories of hope in the lives of St. Francis, St. Claire, and Mary Magdalene in Zachary Roesemann’sicons.
Alisa E. Clark, in her Vimeo “Ottillie’s Basket”, finds hope in the history of her family, and Ann James Massey expresses hope in her painting “The Blessing of the Animals”. And we return to our center with Mary Jane Miller’s icons “Outside Time and Space” and “Christ Reflected”, and with Jack Pachuta’s “Noah’s Ark”, “The Hope of Resurrection “ and “Jesus is the Hope of the World”.
We at ECVA share these images and thoughts with you in an attempt to bring hope to a sometimes dark and chaotic world.
Suzanne Schleck, Curator
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