Gina is an artist who helps me remember Heaven is coming. Through her life and art she helps me have the courage to long for more, love deeply, weep often, and risk much in this short life we have. Besides her beautiful paintings, she has just published The Beloved City, an invitation to awaken our holy imagination, in the “mess” of our daily lives and layers.
She writes, “When I started noticing the beauty of my dropcloths underneath my finished paintings, I began to see the layers and colors my daily life and work had left behind and underfoot as a treasure. The dropcloths began to represent to me vulnerability, community, and being held in a bigger story.”
Gina and I journey together in helping to encourage and sustain Birmingham-area artists, pastors, and city visionaries through InSpero. Beauty matters and so do those who create it.
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