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 Mysticism and Transformation. It's an excellent class here at the School of Theology and Ministry and I encourage anyone to sign up for it when it become available again. I enjoyed the fredom to be able to create my own prjoect. I'm an imaginative person with creativity, but for most of my life I have denied that and listened to the inner voices of doubt who have at times shredded my self-confidence.
Well, things are beginning to turn around, as this quarter I tapped into that creativity like I never have before. The class was set up to explore different metaphors about mysticism throughout the ten week span of the quarter. On the very first day, as I intently stared at the syllabus, I saw images...from the written word of many of the metaphors came a series of scenes sprouting forth from my mind, many of them of nature and from photographs I have taken. And from that came the idea: these metaphors are rich with imagery. Why not do a project using my pictures to correspond with the metaphors?
The original idea was to order prints of digital images and assemble them in a scrapbook of sorts. This was fine until I realized the awesomeness of my MacBook, a cool program calle iPhoto which has templates ready to create books. I arrange it how I want and then upload the information via the internet to Apple, who in turn prints the book and mails it to me. Sweet.
The finished product took many hours to assemble photos in the template and arrange them sequentially. I added some text, but little explanation. It's amazing. And the book itself is well bound with high quality of printing. This is something I'm proud to share and have ideas to expand on the work.
Now, I have shared many of my photos on this blog...some of those are in the book. Perhaps I will blog more about some of the themes and share the corresponding photograph.
Until then, may the rest of your Advent be restful and your Christmas be contemplative. Take a step back from the rush of the culture and enjoy the gift of God's presence and promise.
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Megan
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About Megan Ross
I'm a Lutheran in my fourth year of the M.A. Transforming Spirituality program (MATS), working part-time going to school part-time. At 27, I'm probably one of the younger students at the School of Theology and Ministry.
More about me: Runner; Writer; Traveler; Lover of music, coffee, good food, dark beer, nature, and God; Theologian; deeply spiritual; future diaconal minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and recently consecrated in the Lutheran Deaconess Association.
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