Restless Yearnings
This series was inspired by a visit with my aunt, who had dementia. While we were driving to the coast, she remarked that driving toward the beautiful blue sky was like going to another country. It made me think of how C.S. Lewis describes our desire for a far-off country as an inconsolable secret in all of us, and how the elusive things we long for are not the thing itself but only the scent of a flower we have not found.
Scripture also says that those who live by faith are all “longing for a better country, a heavenly one” (Hebrews 11:16). Just as the blue sky awakened something in Aunty, I too am drawn to the beauty found in nature. Layer by layer, day by day, the works are compilations of yearnings for that far-off country yet to be found. Since her passing, they have also become a way of remembering her and the moment she shared with me.
