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Over the weekend I discovered a new artist: the Swiss-Haitian painter and sculptor Pascale Monnin<\/a>. Monnin\u2019s sculptures were what struck me most. She uses raku, a technique in which glazed clay is taken from the kiln and immediately plunged into water, creating cracks across the sculpture\u2019s surface which are then filled with smoke and soot. So her faces have turquoise veins across their delicate pale skins, and the soft curves of nose and cheek are contrasted to the forking raku lines. The faces become abstract maps whose roads are scars filled with color.<\/p>\n

Monnin then sets these beautiful heads atop structures of thin curved iron and strings of glass beads. The iron recalls the curving veves of Vodoun; the beads give the sculptures a delicate shimmer.<\/p>\n

When one of her sculptures, \u201cAntoine,\u201d fell and cracked at an exhibition, Monnin filled the wide scar with diamonds. \u201cYou have to wear scars as jewels,\u201d she explained. \u201cAntoine\u201d became a piece with a winglike iron-and-bead body, which Monnin renamed \u201cL\u2019 Ange<\/a> de la Resurrection<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was reminded of the most memorable passage from Leah Libresco\u2019s fantastic book Arriving at Amen<\/em><\/a>. Libresco compares Confession to a technique similar to raku: kintsugi, in which the clay\u2019s cracks are filled in with gold. The broken places of our lives are not simply healed and forgotten. Confession doesn\u2019t just restore you to status quo ante. (After all, status quo ante you is the you right about to sin.) Instead your sins, forgiven, become reminders to you of God\u2019s mercy and power. What is true of sin can also be true of (other forms of) suffering: Our wounds<\/a> can speak His name. The transformation of our wounds into beauty by our Creator is one possible description of personal resurrection.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t show you a picture of Monnin\u2019s stuff because of permissions issues, but there are good selections here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and obviously here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"