A good article on learning ...
If it "works" the way it should, the viewer moves from the material world into the spiritual reality beyond it. The image just allows this meeting of the human and the Divine to take place.
In a similar fashion, the making of an icon can be a spiritual journey, taking the maker into deeper parts of his or her self.
That's what five women learned recently during a 10-day iconography workshop at the St. John Neumann Center on Miccosukee Road.
"You can't work for 10 days on the face of Christ and not be moved," said assistant teacher Toni Hepburn. "It's a retreat as much as it's a workshop."
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