Photo courtesy of Connie Collins. St. Margaret's Chapel in Edinburgh Castle. My first thin place experience in Scotland, despite having arrived that morning after a red-eye flight and being jet-lagged!
Thank you again to all who supported me with my Iona Imagery project. Special thanks to: Barbara J., Lexi D., Pamela Daum, Tom and Joyce Waalkes, Sharon and Jim Charmley, Fredlee Votaw, Brett and Brenda Woudenberg, Emil Alecusan, Jeff Dreyer, Su Nimon, Robb Hankins, Heidi Beke Harrigan, Marcia Everett, Barb Walker, & Paul and Gail Wetherell-Sack for helping to financially support this project! (And to my husband, Scott, who is not only helping to financially support my project, but who has supported and affirmed my calling as an artist all along the way!).
I am so deeply grateful for all of your help to make this trip and this project possible. I have over 2,000 photos to work with for this new body of work!
My trip to Scotland was productive and full of meaningful surprises and inspiration. I went to Scotland with the distinct mission of trying to capture the essence of thin places* on the Isle of Iona. What I didn't anticipate was that I would stumble upon thin places in other areas of Scotland as well, not just on Iona. A pleasant surprise indeed!
This new body of work created with imagery from Scotland will be entitled Traces. I have been pondering the idea of traces a lot. Thin places seem to have a spiritual residue, a trace left from the past. I like the idea that the past seeps viscerally into the present in these places of sacred thinness and beauty. It inspires and intrigues me -- and I want to portray my experiences of these spiritual traces in my new work. Wish me luck!
*Thin places are times or places where the veil between the Divine and human is thinner or more permeable, allowing for a deeper sense of God's presence.
