CURRENT SHOW
God Loves a Changeling : Rachel Blodgett
August 5 - September 30, 2023
As I create, I get to know and experience Life and God in sensory forms.
Creating, for me, is a method of living, and is a meeting place between my every self and God.
Acts of creation are a sensory language, where everything is inquiry. Every time I think I know
something, experience shows me more. In times where memory has not been reliable, Art has
been both evidence of past selves, and an everlasting question. When I come back to the
questions, I meet myself in complication and complexity.
As someone who has held many conceptions of what Life is, and therefore what and who I am,
the character of Changeling, a fairy being left in place of a human, feels so familiar to me. As if
through the touch of a fairy, I have met a new form of self many times. Sometimes a new way of
being me, has unfurled like a gift, given. Though sometimes the acts of change have taken
work. I don’t want to give the impression that it’s always been easy to keep hanging on ;)
Change has kept me living.
People have taught me different things about who God is, what ‘he’ thinks of me, and also how
to Live in the ‘right’ way. As I keep living, these teachings fall away as I remember over and over
that I know God. I already know God, and God has always known me, no matter my form.
Art is what I trust. The process of creating is holy. Creation is a process of developing trust in life
and in God.
These artworks are a reflection of devotion to Change itself. I dedicate this space to the
holy changelings: the ones who transform, fairy-like, having many lives and faces, and
no final form. May we love and cherish our every selves; I see no reason for shame in the
process of meeting God.
With deep gratitude to
Octavia Butler
Her words from Parable of the Sower :
All that you touch, you change
All that you change changes you
The only lasting truth is change
God is Change
www.serpent-and-bow.com
As I create, I get to know and experience Life and God in sensory forms.
Creating, for me, is a method of living, and is a meeting place between my every self and God.
Acts of creation are a sensory language, where everything is inquiry. Every time I think I know
something, experience shows me more. In times where memory has not been reliable, Art has
been both evidence of past selves, and an everlasting question. When I come back to the
questions, I meet myself in complication and complexity.
As someone who has held many conceptions of what Life is, and therefore what and who I am,
the character of Changeling, a fairy being left in place of a human, feels so familiar to me. As if
through the touch of a fairy, I have met a new form of self many times. Sometimes a new way of
being me, has unfurled like a gift, given. Though sometimes the acts of change have taken
work. I don’t want to give the impression that it’s always been easy to keep hanging on ;)
Change has kept me living.
People have taught me different things about who God is, what ‘he’ thinks of me, and also how
to Live in the ‘right’ way. As I keep living, these teachings fall away as I remember over and over
that I know God. I already know God, and God has always known me, no matter my form.
Art is what I trust. The process of creating is holy. Creation is a process of developing trust in life
and in God.
These artworks are a reflection of devotion to Change itself. I dedicate this space to the
holy changelings: the ones who transform, fairy-like, having many lives and faces, and
no final form. May we love and cherish our every selves; I see no reason for shame in the
process of meeting God.
With deep gratitude to
Octavia Butler
Her words from Parable of the Sower :
All that you touch, you change
All that you change changes you
The only lasting truth is change
God is Change
www.serpent-and-bow.com
