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| "Ascent: Blue River"Two 25-foot 
          (8 meter) paintings commissioned for the  | 
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| "Ascent: 
          Blue River" was created to reflect colors from the chancel window, motifs 
          from the chapel architecture and organ case, and "Threshold," paintings 
          on silk commissioned in 1997. The river is a common metaphor for life, 
          including birth and death. In the visual language of these works, I 
          have included various currents combined with a symbolic reflection of 
          the world beyond or within. As the architecture lifts our eyes upward, 
          the painting lines curve inward and back to the viewer and participant. | 
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