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There are few things so other-worldly as the experience of standing on a large lake on a freezing cold winter day. As the ice freezes it expands sending haunting "booms" across the entire lake that you can hear reverberating from the depths. You not only hear it, but you feel it as well. Most often the sound travels to you from a distance, but every so often you get lucky, and the ice will crack right beneath you (I'm not sure one ever gets over how startling that is!). The day this photo was taken, Lake Reno was in non-stop action. I witnessed the ice shatter beneath my feet more than once. A few hours later, it was all over save for an occasional boom from afar.

I am both a religious thinker and an artist. My undergraduate work was in the graphic arts, and my graduate studies were in the philosophy of religion and theology. As the son of a high school art teacher, I was raised in an environment that held as sacred the simple act of slowing down and noticing that which we typically take for granted. My work in theology has taken this insight into its very heart. I've been fascinated with the idea of salvation and the way that forms of prayer which emphasize stillness, silence, and release make room for its experience. These theological sensibilities are almost identical with the generative moment in the creative process. Creativity is, in its essence, the bringing of newness into the world. It's...