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Art Is: A Journey into the Light

By (author) Makoto Fujimura

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From a widely celebrated artist, this dazzling book takes readers on a profound journey into the heart of creativity Â When Makoto Fujimura painted as a child, he felt a mysterious electrical charge pass through him. Over decades of art making, writing, and reflecting in his studio, he has come to understand this charge as his Creatorâ€”a source he connects with most profoundly when making art. To be human is to be creative, Fujimura believes, and art making is a discipline of awareness, prayer, and praise by which we journey back to our original light. Â In this book, Fujimura takes readers along on his meandering journey as an artist. We witness him making his â€œprocess-driven slow artâ€â€”using pulverized minerals, gold, or pigments made from oyster shellâ€”as he considers the plants and wildlife on the land where he lives. He draws on Japanese aesthetics, modernist art, Christian theology, sado (art of tea), literature, ecology, and personal narrative, with inspiration ranging from William Blakeâ€™s poetry to the art of Mark Rothko and Josef Albers, and from the wisdom of Scripture and Japanese tea master Sen no RikyÅ« to the traditional Japanese painting technique called Nihonga. Â Bringing together the authorâ€™s written reflections and his paintings, drawings, and photographs, Art Is invites us to see the world in prismatic and diverse lights, helping us navigate the fractured, divisive times we live in.

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