Colors of Goodbye by September Vaudrey

Author:September Vaudrey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, RELIGION / Christian Life / Spiritual Growth
ISBN: 9781496412461
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2016-04-05T04:00:00+00:00

On the wall above one of the tables, our friends have projected a short essay Katie wrote for her senior exhibit in high school:

On Beauty and Art

The relative beauty that is cultivated by pain—the growth, insight, and strength—compels me. I am learning never to waste pain, but to experience it fully, and my work is a reflection of that growth. This formation of thought has also inspired me to delight in things that are relatively lovely, like blushing cheeks and birthmarks. I want my work to be indicative of the beauty within struggle in a cover-your-freckles culture.

As a lover of the human form, I appreciate the drawings and paintings of Degas, who depicted women simultaneously as imperfect and beautiful. Many were flawed, with skin that was grey; still, their form as a human in the Imago Dei made them lovely. Degas’s figurative work really compels me to interpret the human form as something lovely in spite of, even because of, its flawed nature.

All art, whether it intends to or not, communicates. I want mine to communicate this.

Katie Vaudrey

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