The Meaning Code | Two Artists Discuss Goodness, Truth and Beauty: Sherie Harkins @TheMeaningCode | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 54 seconds ago.
Sherie Harkins, artist and art group facilitator joins the Meaning Code for a far reaching discussion of the role of art in society and in the church.
sherieharkins.com
If you want to reach Sherie about joining the art discussion group, her contact info is at the website. And here's a section from Sherie's homepage:
"For all of my life I had found myself calmed by beauty and the order that came when creating. Lewis’s quote helped me both embrace the experience and understand its limitations:
“I am trying to rip open the inconsolable secret in each one of you—the secret which hurts so much that you take your revenge on it by calling it names like Nostalgia and Romanticism and Adolescence; the secret also which pierces with such sweetness that when, in very intimate conversation, the mention of it becomes imminent, we grow awkward and affect to laugh at ourselves; the secret we cannot hide and cannot tell, though we desire to do both. We cannot tell it because it is a desire for something that has never actually appeared in our experience. We cannot hide it because our experience is constantly suggesting it, and we betray ourselves like lovers at the mention of a name. Our commonest expedient is to call it beauty and behave as if that had settled the matter. Wordsworth’s expedient was to identify it with certain moments in his own past. But all this is a cheat. If Wordsworth had gone back to those moments in the past, he would not have found the thing itself, but only the reminder of it; what he remembered would turn out to be itself a remembering. The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
Our previous conversations:
youtu.be/fbL3PgRWhRQ
youtu.be/f3mSQLDycgw (here we share artwork and I discuss the Elements and Principles of Art connecting to science.
Sherie Harkins, artist and art group facilitator joins the Meaning Code for a far reaching discussion of the role of art in society and in the church.
sherieharkins.com
If you want to reach Sherie about joining the art discussion group, her contact info is at the website. And here's a section from Sherie's homepage:
"For all of my life I had found myself calmed by beauty and the order that came when creating. Lewis’s quote helped me both embrace the experience and understand its limitations:
“I am trying to rip open the inconsolable secret in each one of you—the secret which hurts so much that you take your revenge on it by calling it names like Nostalgia and Romanticism and Adolescence; the secret also which pierces with such sweetness that when, in very intimate conversation, the mention of it becomes imminent, we grow awkward and affect to laugh at ourselves; the secret we cannot hide and cannot tell, though we desire to do both. We cannot tell it because it is a desire for something that has never actually appeared in our experience. We cannot hide it because our experience is constantly suggesting it, and we betray ourselves like lovers at the mention of a name. Our commonest expedient is to call it beauty and behave as if that had settled the matter. Wordsworth’s expedient was to identify it with certain moments in his own past. But all this is a cheat. If Wordsworth had gone back to those moments in the past, he would not have found the thing itself, but only the reminder of it; what he remembered would turn out to be itself a remembering. The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
Our previous conversations:
youtu.be/fbL3PgRWhRQ
youtu.be/f3mSQLDycgw (here we share artwork and I discuss the Elements and Principles of Art connecting to science.
