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Kathy T. Hettinga
Widowed at a young
age, I found comfort in the cemeteries in the
San Luis Valley where I grew up. I found that
the historic Christian images, from simple
crosses to figures in niches, were able to
contain the profound content of life and death
and faith in a tangible physical form. These
grave images present the abstract, the
intangible, the invisible in a physical form
that comforts and speaks to us even now. (Hettinga,
"Grave Images: A Faith Visualized in a
Technological Age" in Virtual Morality:
Morals, Ethics, and New Media, edited by
Mark Wolf, pg. 237)
The gray adobe color of this concrete cruciform
shape blends into the mountain desert landscape
and at once speaks to us of belonging in place
and unashamedly of the passing of time,
reminding us of our own temporality.
Kathy Hettinga
email:
hettinga@messiah.edu |
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Concrete Cross,
La Garita, Colorado
digital image, 2004 |
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