AIMEE MACIVER
Beauty is a universal language that elevates the human heart to contemplate truth.
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The truth is the way to life.
Yet this truth, this way, often feels difficult. Narrow. Truth demands the faith of stepping out where we do not always fully see.
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Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) called the saints a "great luminous wake with which God has passed through history - truly light from light."
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The saints, for me, are lanterns that illuminate the narrow way.
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I have long loved the communion of saints that defies the weakness of earthly labels - ethnicity, gender, class, ability, age, talent, even history - and shimmers with the promise of eternal fulfillment. Painting these men, women, and children is an attempt to make visible their beauty and convey the hope their stories bear for you and me.
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Because beauty - that in the beginning made the world - in the end saves the world.
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I live in Covington, Louisiana, with my family and also work as a high school theology teacher, content creator, and writer.
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