Uniting Art with Faith

A painting by Makoto Fujimaru. 

It was absolutely captured by this idea of a moving painting that we saw in class on Thursday. It reminded me of some futuristic photograph where the people move within the frame, but I thought it was absolutely brilliant. The fact that the creators of such art were incorporating ancient Christian images and ideas into it was amazing as well.

It brings me back to my thought about accessing the ordinary through the extraordinary. The swimming pool is just a basic thing of our lives, but when lit in such a way and filmed in super slow motion, gives an aura of another dimension. Its like we are watching death turn back to life right in front of us. I would be very interested in seeing more of this type of art.

I also found it very refreshing to see the Japanese artist Makoto Fujimura embracing his art and his faith all at once. I think the Church needs to listen to him and realize that art is an integral part of our faith. Without it, we deny God and lose sight of our Creator. Those are very dangerous waters to run. Once we lose our art, we lose our humanity.