Faith Art: “Grain Life in Abudance”
by Deborah Risa Mrantz

~ by Deborah Risa Mrantz

DESCRIPTION
Among the most remarkable qualities of GRAIN LIFE IN ABUNDANCE is its palette— Morrocan mustard, curry and saffron yellows, muted cerise and bedouin browns, olive greens of Meditteranean places of belonging. These hues interact with each other in actual color vibration and in opacity and transparency, creating deeper layers of language and cognitive textures in the Scripture. They also firmly locate us, on the road where Joseph’s brothers sell him into Egypt, and in the wheat fields, or other ‘storing up’ places of creating a good foundation for the future– for ourselves within the Godliness of life in Christ, and of utilitarianism with a granularspecificity Saint Paul exemplified. Hierarchies of words and phrases constantly move in interplay, fluidly carrying us through symbol and common-sensibilities, and the sensate warmth of sun-drenched grain, olives, berries and peeling ripeness of cinnamon bark.

PROVENANCE
GRAIN LIFE IN ABUNDANCE (v1). edition (1690) digitally signed, numbered prints; digital laminate to black aluminum. Created in LOGOS DIVINITY™ LLC design studio, Santa Fe New Mexico, MARCH 2010. Printed at FIREDRAGON COLOR, Santa Fe New Mexico. Certificate of Authenticity provided with source/origination information on artwork.

ARTIST
Deborah Risa Mrantz, seminarian and artist, recently contacted Faith House to share her devotional art.  LOGOS DIVINITY™ LLC | AND THE WORD WAS GOD is a religious, liturgical arts endeavour forged from epiphany and created through profound movement of modernist, contemporary design into a new form of service to God. As an advertising-marketing principal, executive creative and creative director, I continue to evolve a professional life of design, publishing, printing, and multi-sensory digital design into my journey to Seminary–where for the last several years I’ve discerned a clear calling, through rediscovery of long-held vocation into the life of God’s Word and Pastoral Ministry.

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