looking at and looking in/through, drawing and imaging the trinity
You look at a person's ears.
You look into a person's eyes.
You look at a car.
You look into a book; through the page to the world of the book.
You look at a wall.
You look into a painting or a mirror.
And you don't look at or into lights at all, you look at everything by that light.
When you are looking at a someone and your eyes meet, touch, that is a very personal thing. If you look at someone's eyes who is not looking at you, you are looking at.
When your glances meet you are suddenly looking into each other; and that is inevitably personal, relational, and makes us vulnerable.
That is why when strangers pass each other they often look down or away that their eyes won't meet.
For in meeting, we are faced with an image of God and are aware of our need for love and to love and aware of out sin and shame.
When eyes meet, reciprocal action is required. We must give something: a nod, a smile, a wave of the hand.
Perhaps this is because we are images of the Triune God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who are continually giving and receiving, indwelling, dwelling in each other, loving each other, delighting in ("beholding in joy") each other.
(When you look into someones eyes, you dwell there for a moment)
When I am drawing someone, I am usually looking at them, but if you look at a person long enough, you'll see God, an image of God. The looking at becomes looking through at some point. The same is true to a lesser extent of anything created that reveals God's glory.
This reminds me, in drawing, when you seeks the truth, fidelity to the visual universe, if you keep at it you arrive at a deeply personal (but not less objectively true) vision of what you are seeing.
Because the Triune God is at the back (and front) of everything there is, to know something objectively is also to know it personally. Truth cannot be separated from morality and beauty; Logic cannot be neatly separated from ethics and aesthetics. For when we know something, (some truth) we must act (in love) and speak the truth in love. and be (and do) what we are made for: reflect the beauty and glory of God.
You look into a person's eyes.
You look at a car.
You look into a book; through the page to the world of the book.
You look at a wall.
You look into a painting or a mirror.
And you don't look at or into lights at all, you look at everything by that light.
When you are looking at a someone and your eyes meet, touch, that is a very personal thing. If you look at someone's eyes who is not looking at you, you are looking at.
When your glances meet you are suddenly looking into each other; and that is inevitably personal, relational, and makes us vulnerable.
That is why when strangers pass each other they often look down or away that their eyes won't meet.
For in meeting, we are faced with an image of God and are aware of our need for love and to love and aware of out sin and shame.
When eyes meet, reciprocal action is required. We must give something: a nod, a smile, a wave of the hand.
Perhaps this is because we are images of the Triune God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who are continually giving and receiving, indwelling, dwelling in each other, loving each other, delighting in ("beholding in joy") each other.
(When you look into someones eyes, you dwell there for a moment)
When I am drawing someone, I am usually looking at them, but if you look at a person long enough, you'll see God, an image of God. The looking at becomes looking through at some point. The same is true to a lesser extent of anything created that reveals God's glory.
This reminds me, in drawing, when you seeks the truth, fidelity to the visual universe, if you keep at it you arrive at a deeply personal (but not less objectively true) vision of what you are seeing.
Because the Triune God is at the back (and front) of everything there is, to know something objectively is also to know it personally. Truth cannot be separated from morality and beauty; Logic cannot be neatly separated from ethics and aesthetics. For when we know something, (some truth) we must act (in love) and speak the truth in love. and be (and do) what we are made for: reflect the beauty and glory of God.
Labels: drawing, looking, personal knowledge, seeing, trinity
posted by Stejahen at 1:15 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks for the link, and suggested book. I've only read one biography of Tolkien, but I'll put your rec. on my list as a "think to read before publishing on Tolkien again." And the Chesterton magazine....I shall devour.
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