The main drive in my photography is to bring GOD and my faith into its creation. I owe my passion for it as well as my artistic ability to Him.
Period.
And I love it that I have grown to understand that my love of creativity is a hallmark and characteristic of God. He is the first creator and it is in His nature to create. As an image bearer, I am also a creative agent too, just like Him. To create is to enjoy and all that unfolded in Genesis flowed from an enjoyment God had to make and be pleased with it.
Photography and art pleases me and are life giving. So, to assist in my fulfilling my deepest longing to meet God in what I create, this personal project is birthed to explore where I experience Him in moments and places when I a feel the texture of tissue paper. The Scottish Isle of Iona is to be:
"where only tissue paper separates the material from the spiritual."
- George Macleod, founder of the Iona Community.
It is the discovery of this Celtic Christian term - thin places, where the veil between heaven and earth is its most diaphanous, which forces me to recall the numerous occasions, outside of Iona, where I have felt the same texture of tissue paper. And to subsequently comprehend that such thinness is available in the everyday mundane.
This project is a further exploration and celebration to photograph these translucent spaces and places as an aide-memoire that my creator God wants to be encountered and encounters us all the time. To seek, to knock and to ask to enjoy His company and Him delighting in mine.