Comments on: Making Worlds http://jeffberryman.com/2010/01/20/making-worlds/ Cobbling together the artist's life...acting, writing, directing, teaching...making beauty... Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:40:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jeffberryman http://jeffberryman.com/2010/01/20/making-worlds/#comment-1355 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:56:48 +0000 http://jeffberryman.com/?p=830#comment-1355 Julie,

This is awesome. Exactly the sort of thing I’m looking for, and exactly what I needed to hear personally. Challenging the assumptions in ways that are truly transforming. Thanks as always…

Jeff

]]> By: Julie http://jeffberryman.com/2010/01/20/making-worlds/#comment-1354 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:46:34 +0000 http://jeffberryman.com/?p=830#comment-1354 Jeff, I have a topic suggestion for a chapter in your future book on faith and art. I would love to read some thoughts on faith the artist and work. When I say work, I’m not talking about artistic work, I’m talking about labor. Most artists have to support themselves doing some other kind of work other than their art. We all lament this situation and pray with all of our might that we might one day be one of those lucky few that is able to spend all of their time and energy writing, acting or painting.
The pastor at my church once included a poem in her homily by the poet Thomas Lynch, who is also an undertaker. He writes about the subjects of life and death in a way no one could if he or she didn’t have to face it every day. I heard a reading by another wonderful poet (I hate that I can’t remember her name) from Alaska who works in her family’s meat shop. She wrote a wonderful poem about her coworkers. So often artists treat the non-artistic labor they do to support themselves as a curse. I would love to read about more artists like the two poets above who have incorporated their labor into their art and I’d love to read an exploration of the role faith plays in this. Although we often look at the lives of full-time artists and think that this is the way the life is supposed to be for anyone who pursues the arts passionately. Perhaps this is not the case and not even what God intends for us.

]]> By: kseverny http://jeffberryman.com/2010/01/20/making-worlds/#comment-1353 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:03:25 +0000 http://jeffberryman.com/?p=830#comment-1353 this is epic

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