Sometimes the Spirit Touches Us Through our Weaknesses
Sometimes the Spirit Touches Us Through our Weaknesses
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Story Behind the Art
Story Behind the Art
How do you keep your faith in the face of hardship? No one wants to go through trials and ordeals.Yet ffter passing through darkness we often experience a spiritual illumination. What James Christensen is telling in Sometimes the Spirit Touches Us through Our Weaknesses is ADVERSITY HAS ITS PURPOSE.
The hunch-backed figure sits on a podium on a checker board floor the checkerboard is the dark and light playing field of life. The hunch is not a deformity but a physical symbol of the burdens all humans bear. In life we experience hardships.
The spirit hovers above the hump the electric spark of inspiration flowing from her to him, flowing in through his burdens. The Latin on his green podium reads POST NUBILA PHOEBUS - After Clouds – SUN. Our ordeals are temporary. What is important is that we do the best with what we are given
And Remember - Every cloud has a silver lining
About the Artist
About the Artist
James C. Christensen 1942-2017.
The range of Christensen's subject matter and style are testament to the artist's imagination, creativity and understanding of art history. His drive to connect with the world weaves through his work like a ribbon, over mermaids, under saints, and around hunchbacks. Christensen has created a rich and strangely familiar world that will take a lifetime to explore. His art is found in prized collections through out the world.
Born in 1942 and raised in Culver City, California. He studied painting at Brigham Young University as well as the University of California at Los Angeles before finishing his formal education at BYU.
His honors and awards include being named a "Utah Art Treasure" as well as one of Utah’s Top 100 Artists by the Springville Museum of Art and receiving the Governor’s Award for Art from the Utah Arts Council. He had won all the professional art honors given by the World Science Fiction Convention as well as multiple Chesley Awards from the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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