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Digital download for one-time use in your ministry context.
“Hope Like a Dancer” is inspired by Matthew 11:1-11
This image was created as part of a bundle of Advent resources from Sanctified Art. More resources can be found here: Sanctified Art Advent Resources.
… In this image, John sits in prison, letting the disciples’ testimony settle in. People with hearing, visual, and physical impairments experience new senses and mobility. Those with skin diseases are cleansed. Those with little material comfort are offered irrepressible hope, and the lungs of the dead are filled with the breath of life. I decided to image this good news through the dancing light of a lantern in John’s prison cell. I chose dancing figures because dancing feels like a primal response to the radical healing taking place outside the prison walls. As these six dancers illuminate the cell, I imagine John, even if for a moment, breaking into a bit of laughter at the magnitude of Jesus’ ministry. Jesus was quite literally doing the unimaginable. He was removing barriers so that the marginalized were no longer reduced to begging and sitting on mats, shoved to the edges of society. He was not only healing physical ailments; perhaps more importantly, he was restoring people to community.
(full artist statement available in download)
Examples of Acceptable Uses:
On printed or projected resources used in worship services, educational events, and ministry programs (i.e. bulletins, Sunday School publications, Powerpoint presentations)
In print and digital communications for your ministry (i.e. newsletters, emails, weekly updates, etc.)
Download Includes:
Files for print and web use
Artist statement
Licensing terms
Digital download for one-time use in your ministry context.
“Hope Like a Dancer” is inspired by Matthew 11:1-11
This image was created as part of a bundle of Advent resources from Sanctified Art. More resources can be found here: Sanctified Art Advent Resources.
… In this image, John sits in prison, letting the disciples’ testimony settle in. People with hearing, visual, and physical impairments experience new senses and mobility. Those with skin diseases are cleansed. Those with little material comfort are offered irrepressible hope, and the lungs of the dead are filled with the breath of life. I decided to image this good news through the dancing light of a lantern in John’s prison cell. I chose dancing figures because dancing feels like a primal response to the radical healing taking place outside the prison walls. As these six dancers illuminate the cell, I imagine John, even if for a moment, breaking into a bit of laughter at the magnitude of Jesus’ ministry. Jesus was quite literally doing the unimaginable. He was removing barriers so that the marginalized were no longer reduced to begging and sitting on mats, shoved to the edges of society. He was not only healing physical ailments; perhaps more importantly, he was restoring people to community.
(full artist statement available in download)
Examples of Acceptable Uses:
On printed or projected resources used in worship services, educational events, and ministry programs (i.e. bulletins, Sunday School publications, Powerpoint presentations)
In print and digital communications for your ministry (i.e. newsletters, emails, weekly updates, etc.)
Download Includes:
Files for print and web use
Artist statement
Licensing terms