'PROSPECTIVE'. oil on canvas 20"x16". 1979.

‘Prospective’ is the only one painting remaining from my first year in Boston. I enrolled at the School of

Museum of Fine Arts. Within courses on drawing, I took painting under Professor Shapiro. Here I now

recognize the elements which are still my focus twenty four years later. I conceived a universe of certain

color-forms as square/ circle/ triangle. I eventually left SMFA to pursue the workings of Art Therapy.

This transition parallels my career in Church Education. Newly ordained, I quit Park Avenue Church of

Arlington, and by January 1980 was hired for behavioral training in Human Services. Soon I was a full

time Creative Arts Therapist, and later qualified as a registered career Art Therapist. Amidst this change

I furthered my religion studies in doctoral studies for Psychology and Clinical Services to graduate in 1983.

During these three years, I created the 30 drawings show ‘Transformations’ at Church of the Covenant in

Boston. These drawings developed the inception of a visual theolgy; begun by ‘Prospective’.

Both ‘Prospective’ 1980 and ‘Transformations’ 1983 articulate a modern sensibility to abstract theology

through artworks. Remote in Eastern Orthodoxy and basic classical architecture are these forms

structured of the square/ circle/ triangle. I continue to dwell on this configuration in quest of symbols

for a creative theology. I seek to enlarge and expand Trinitarian Christology toward universal significance.

Doing this, I muse personally about my relation to the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity. Also, I move from

a strict revealed to a natural theology. Since my ordination and departure from church ministry to work

in psychology and the creative visual arts, I see that I’ve humanized Christology to imagine dimensions

of al all embracing vision of sacred space and ‘person’.