<B>From a world-renowned painter an exploration of creativity's quintessential—and often overlooked—role in the spiritual life</B><br><br><br> <br>Conceived over thirty years of painting and creating in his studio this book is Makoto Fujimura's broad and deep exploration of creativity and the spiritual aspects of 'making.' What he does in the studio is theological work as much as it is aesthetic work. In between pouring precious pulverized minerals onto handmade paper to create the prismatic refractive surfaces of his art he comes into the quiet space in the studio in a discipline of awareness waiting prayer and praise.<br><br><br> <br>Ranging from the Bible to T. S. Eliot and from Mark Rothko to Japanese Kintsugi technique he shows how unless we are making something we cannot know the depth of God's being and God's grace permeating our lives. This poignant and beautiful book offers the perspective of in Christian Wiman's words 'an accidental theologian' one who comes to spiritual questions always through the prism of art.
