Prayer of St. Frank
Text: Prayer of Saint Francis
“Lord make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me so love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. – - – Oh Divine Master grant that I may, not so much seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood, as to understand. To be loved, as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. And its in dying that we are born into eternal life. Amen.”
This piece took a very long time for me to create and that was before I started actually working on it with my hands. I have loved this prayer for years. I memorized it (no small feat for me) for Lent one year. It was not until I thought up an image of a person in a meditation/prayer posture, hands balanced between acceptance/peace and resistance/justice, that I finally knew I could start to actually work on it. It still took a while to decide the back drop. I waffled between pure color, landscape, and frustration. Then I realized that because this prayer is relational the backdrop needed to be somehow social. Once I had that last piece of the whole, I became a focused frenzy trying to finish it. It was like a giant wave that took years to build up, starting as a little niggling in the back of my mind, and then ‘kaboom’, I had paper cuts all over my hands! I felt a huge sense of relief when it was finally finished.
Giclee Art Reproductions (pronounced zee-clay) are high quality prints that utilize a special process; replicating the original work's colors and tonal variation in a way that is fade resistant and nearly identical to the original.
Size: 24"x18"
Standard Prints use Xerox copy technology for a colorful, fade resistant print. (Must be kept out of the sun.)
Note: This print is smaller than the original and picture frame ready. It is scaled down to a 9"x12" print. Due to the smaller size, it is difficult to read.
