Spirit

A connection to the ‘stream of life.’

Where are the tangible memorials to what survivors have lost?

We need a way to pull everything together and celebrate wholeness.

Narrative symbolism on large, colorful canvases.

Familiar growing, living things.

A photographer describes his spiritual practice of “looking for the pattern of things.”

Raised Unitarian Universalist, I have ‘no problem with things that feel religious.’

A Vermont bridge, painted by this magazine’s longtime art director.

Personal iconography.

Painting is where I struggle to see the world as it is.

The chalice and the labyrinth.

Rough, improvisational, many-layered.