Compassion
14When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had
compassion for them and cured their sick.
... 19Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on
the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and
blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples
gave them to the crowds. 20And all ate and were
filled;
Matthew 14:13-21
Loaves and Fishes
Serigraph
by John August Swanson
"The people in my painting (his original
one) are wearing garments with many colors and patterns, inspired by the
creations of the makers of cloth, the weavers, and the dyers of Central America,
Mexico, and parts of Africa and India."
(See bottom of page for more information.)
True
compassion is walking in the shoes
of
those who have no feet.
~
Jackie A. Strange
Nobody who is somebody looks down on
anybody.
~
Margaret Deland
The dew of
compassion
is a
tear.
~ Lord Byron
Bill and Kay at Bill's
90th Birthday Celebration
07-24-05
Lori demonstrating a painting technique
at Noel's place next door to the buffalo herd at
Genesee.
07-28-05
Carolyn M. and Jackie
at Noel's
07-28-05
To be seventy years young
is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years
old.
~
Oliver Wendell Holmes
July 31,
2005 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary
Time
The meticulous process of creating a drawing for each of
the 54 stencils gave me the chance to build up the
colors, patterns and textures, and develop the work much further than I could
with the painting. Drawing with
fine technical pens, I built up stippling and shaping with each stencil. After each stencil was printed, in
responding to the changing image; I felt the work itself guided me to the next
color. New screens were made for
each color to achieve the proper fabric tension required for very precise color
registration. I custom mixed the inks for each printing
using a clear varnish and oil paints. The inks are alternately layered opaque
and transparent. This layering
creates an effect of intricate built up textures, and rich saturated
colors.
My image of
LOAVES AND FISHES emphasizes and reminds us of the basic needs of all
humanity. We all share the need for
food and for providing for our families and communities. If we take the cosmic
view, that there currently exists enough of what we need to sustain the world;
we urgently need to consider sharing the resources that have been entrusted to
us.
--John
August Swanson,
November
2003
To see a
step-by-step demonstration of the serigraph process:
