{"id":1020,"date":"2011-11-15T12:30:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T17:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2011-11-15T12:31:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T17:31:20","slug":"letting-meaning-unfold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/letting-meaning-unfold\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting Meaning Unfold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><em>The following is an excerpt from an article written by our Community Coordinator, Rachel Pollak, for the Lutheran New Yorker on the subject of St. Lydia&#8217;s and our relationship to art. \u00a0Read the full text of the article in this month&#8217;s LNY <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnys.org\/assets\/1\/7\/LNYv22n2.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Art plays an important role at St. Lydia\u2019s, and not\u00a0just in our graphic design or excellent taste in tablecloths.\u00a0During the sacred meal we share each Sunday night, when\u00a0we cook together, break bread, pray and sing at our table,\u00a0we place practice before belief, choosing to let the meaning\u00a0of what we do unfold from our liturgy (which is grounded\u00a0in a long history and rich tradition of Christian worship)\u00a0into the rest of our lives. Making art, for me at least, is\u00a0also a practice, one that has important parallels with this\u00a0liturgical practice. I work in my studio because I feel a\u00a0kind of hunger that can\u2019t be satisfied in any other way.Many of the people who come to St. Lydia\u2019s come from\u00a0outside church traditions, and the hunger they feel for\u00a0spiritual communion is easiest to identify by its similarity\u00a0to other kinds of hunger. The hunger for food, the hunger\u00a0for fellowship and connection, and for a place to ask the\u00a0questions that have no answers. We arrive hungry, we pick\u00a0up what\u2019s in front of us, and we work with it until we\u2019ve\u00a0made something edible, or something that we can look at,\u00a0consider, chew on.<\/p>\n<p>There is no direct correlation between object and\u00a0meaning in the making of art, and the same goes for dinner\u00a0church. Every week as a community we walk up to the line\u00a0between what we know and what we don\u2019t know and try to\u00a0spend a few hours living in between those two realms. \u00a0Every time we make a work of art or consider one, we are\u00a0walking up to the same line; we practice a radical way of\u00a0looking at the world where the old categories\u2014high church\u00a0or low church, decorative art or fine art, rich or poor, in or\u00a0out\u2014don\u2019t apply.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from an article written by our Community Coordinator, Rachel Pollak, for the Lutheran New Yorker on the subject of St. Lydia&#8217;s and our relationship to art. \u00a0Read the full text of the article in this month&#8217;s LNY here. Art plays an important role at St. Lydia\u2019s, and not\u00a0just in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}