New Art at SLP

It’s our pleasure to display the art of fellow Eagle Brooker, Scott Sample. Each picture is part of a series and two pieces from the Hand Series adorn a wall in our Café 5000. As you can see from Scott’s description below, the works are dense with detailed meaning springing from a heart of authentic worship.

The Hand Series by Scott Sample

The Hand Series

The Hand Series was created to be a visual metaphor and reflection on the active nature of God’s grace and timeless love— and it is through His hand that all things are created and with His hand is formed all of life.

It has struck me many times to think of the amazing grace, compassion, strength, power, and love that God enacts both past and present with His creation—this continues with God’s hand over us; guiding, protecting, and empowering us.

In these works, the rendering of each hand in it’s different forms is meant to reflect on the various ways that God interacts with us, and how we come to God with an outstretched hand—that in this relation it is active, never ceasing. This is the reason for the looser kinetic drawing style—it is in the energy of the strokes and marks that we get a sense of His unceasing and powerful love—it is always there and always moving.

The drawing style also conveys a sense of simplicity and honesty to the medium—actually being hand done and not meant on any level to look mechanical or like a photo impression leaving room for personal connotations.

Outward from the center drawing and in the backdrop is the actual Latin translation for Psalm 19:1-2—it is not meant to be read literally but as a centering paradigm to the hand of God coming from and over the “Word.” The font chosen for the background is also a timeless serif, based on Trajan Roman, which was the defining font used within Rome at the time of Christ.

Another aspect to the works is to convey an element of timelessness within the materials—the plaster and fresco style with layers of glazing is drawn from the artists of the high Renaissance. The hands are drawn in an active loose sketch style to reflect an active and kinetic grace, defined through God’s hand. The style of the works is created with layer upon layer to transcend any specific time, and let the viewer pull visual contextual cues from history, culture, and architecture.

The hope with this series is to pull the viewer in and let them sense and feel the timeless grace that is forever God.

Scott Sample 2009