(19) Vital religion helps people to find
this quality of aliveness in their interpersonal relationships, their interaction with nature, and their communion with God.
While Hart (2003) described trying to define spirituality like «trying to hold water in our hands» (p. 8), some scholars such as Claxton (2002) have boldly listed spiritual
qualities that can be taught to students, including
aliveness, belonging, an affinity with the unknown, and peace
of mind.
This exhibition investigates the intersection
of abstraction and animism as emphasized by certain formal
qualities — goopy, sticky, ooey - gooey or otherwise materially luscious surfaces in combination with aspects
of pattern and repetitions such as flutter, throbbing, palpitation, pulsating, orgiastic rhythms.The paintings in «My Vicious Throbbing Heart: Animating Desire in Abstract Painting,» consequently, operate in between coming into being and moving out
of form and are underscored by a sense
of aliveness.