Makers by Nature: Art, Hospitality, and Hope -- Bruce Herman at the Humanities Forum
Автор: PC Humanities Program
Загружено: 2025-11-17
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The world needs handmade things. By making art, music, and poetry we welcome others into our most intimate space of feeling. Our home is filled with handmade objects. People who visit remark on feeling mysteriously relaxed the minute they arrive, and without thinking they put their feet up on the furniture. I believe this has everything to do with the fact that I built the house with my own hands using local materials. The walls and shelves are covered with children’s art as well as work by professionals and a multitude of found objects. There are guitars, piano, accordion, harmonicas, hundreds of pencils, markers, brushes and lots of paint and paper––along with an open invitation for anyone to sing, play, participate and make things. Making art is an act of hospitality and hope.
Just before Christ suffered his sacrificial death, he hosted a quiet meal with his friends as a last act. “This is my body, broken for you. This is my blood…” His words are the final word on hospitality, and the act of making a work of art is analogous: offering your heart and mind –– baring your soul to others –– is the “meal” for the stranger. Sacrifice and art are joined in an essential way.
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