This piece is a work by Ukrainian Canadian artist, Dmitri Matkovsky. He is a working artist of Toronto and the Abstract Expressionist movement. His hope is to connect with viewers on an emotional level and welcome them into a relationship. Pieter Bruegel (1525-1569) who is included in this title was the most significant artist of the Dutch Renaissance. His creations might be linked to this one through the crowded nature of the composition.

This abstract work of the Resurrection is offered on this day as a way to carry the weight of Holy Week and of these times in our world.  It is a view of the color and light of Easter morning and an invitation to our own images of it. Abstract art has a generative power beyond representation. It can cause us to step closer in curiosity; to consider what we would create; to engage in the mystery named here in space and value.

What does the Resurrection look and feel like in your thoughts?  Think on these things.

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,

whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”   

In gratitude, faith and hope,

Sandy Prouty
Minister of Children and Families
Montview Church