Seventy Times Seven
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| Seventy Times Seven Susan Savage 2007 18 x 24 in. Oil on canvas Private collection |
~Susan Savage
Savage says that “it is my intent that my images reproduce the look of the visible world, but simultaneously offer something beyond mere physical appearances. The bowl emerges as a vehicle for a continuing story of meditation, mystery, truth, and reverent beauty. By taking the commonplace and lifting it up to a state of contemplation, the vessel exists to glorify, and it exists to signify.” Savage continues, “As my faith informs my vision, it becomes the reason for my work to exist. Consequently, I see my images as devotions, as a way to draw the viewer more deeply into contemplative meditation as it taps into one’s spiritual realm in some way. I like to think that my images are reminders of what we already know, but because the familiar is now somehow unfamiliar we pause as we are brought into a realm of transcendence, into a realm of revelation, even if words do not come easily.”
Savage says that “it is my intent that my images reproduce the look of the visible world, but simultaneously offer something beyond mere physical appearances. The bowl emerges as a vehicle for a continuing story of meditation, mystery, truth, and reverent beauty. By taking the commonplace and lifting it up to a state of contemplation, the vessel exists to glorify, and it exists to signify.” Savage continues, “As my faith informs my vision, it becomes the reason for my work to exist. Consequently, I see my images as devotions, as a way to draw the viewer more deeply into contemplative meditation as it taps into one’s spiritual realm in some way. I like to think that my images are reminders of what we already know, but because the familiar is now somehow unfamiliar we pause as we are brought into a realm of transcendence, into a realm of revelation, even if words do not come easily.”
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