Herald Across the Divide

By Janina Aza Karpinska

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From the artist:
The Beginning: an early piece, on hardboard painted black. I have always been struck by Mary saying 'Yes' – not really knowing what she was letting herself in for (social humiliation; the running joke of her community; slurs against her 'modesty'; the mother of a troublesome run-away child, and a misunderstood, activist adult son). The divide between information, 'Good News', and living out its reality. How Heaven can enter the domain of the Earthly Life – what was Jesus letting Himself in for?! A maelstrom of colour and topsy-turviness! 

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Janina Aza Karpinska is a multi-disciplinary artist–poet from the south coast of England. Poetry informs her collage-making with an eye for the 'chime' of pattern, motif and colour; the rhythm and flow of line. Working quickly and intuitively, with an innate sense of order, she re-configures chaos and brokenness to make a new, cohesive whole as an act of creative redemption. Her work has appeared in Bath House Journal; Young Ravens Literary Review; Grim & Gilded; The Empty Mirror; 3 Elements Review; Heart of Flesh and Antler Velvet, among others.

Janina's other work on Foreshadow:
Abide in Me, as I Abide in You (Art, August 2024)