Remember the year when our H&H theme was “Faith and Film?”
The favorite film that year, by consensus, was the first film we watched, a documentary about Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy called Rivers and Tides.
The art of Andres Amador reminds me of Goldsworthy’s art — especially because its ephemerality draws us to the beauty and creative possibilities tucked within each moment which like the surface of a morning beach is washed away by the late afternoon ocean tide. Perhaps rather than viewing our lives as a lasting tribute (the Legacy movement), maybe a less self-oriented way of living consciously and well is to view our lives, in fact, to view each day as a canvas on which we paint, knowing that in the morning the canvas –-however beautiful or stunning or gripping the previous day’s artwork— is a fresh tabula rasa.
I wonder if this pattern-making, this art of sacred design doesn’t say something about life as prayer.
“. . . .remember that the meaning of life is to build a life as if it were a work of art.” ~ Abraham Heschel
Peace,
Dan