This Thursday, November 15th, our daughter Stephanie will have a solo show in the cafe at the Gallery at Avalon Island in downtown Orlando. We've updated her web-page to feature some of her latest work. You can check it out through the link to the right.
This picture is one of four paintings Stephanie did for her final project while studying at the School at the Institute of Art of Chicago. She calls the set "The Hope Series". She was inspired by her summer trip to South Africa where she and her sister, Katie, worked among the poor in a village called Qua Qua. As she has gotten educated about the AIDS pandemic in Africa, she noticed that you often see faces of children. She also noticed that associated with those faces are numbers--statistics of orphans and those infected with the HIV virus.
In her paintings the numbers mean something different. They are actually pointers to books, chapters, and verses of the Bible. They are verses of HOPE. So instead of statistics of the spiraling problem, Stephanie points us back to God--the real hope for those suffering.
So 2 Cor 4:18? That's really, really cool.
Not to mention 47 is my favorite number.
Posted by: John | November 14, 2007 at 02:12 AM
Best of luck to Stephanie! We know how incredibly talentd she is and know that this will be her first of many!
Your friends at the Gallery at Metro
Posted by: Gallery at Metro | February 29, 2008 at 10:05 AM