Join The Breath & the Clay community online for our series of keynote talks, virtual performances and interactive discussions from leading voices on art, faith and culture. In this short presentation, Jennifer Dasal highlights the work of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint and discusses her link to Spiritualism.

To register for the conference (on a pay-what-you-can basis), visit The Breath and the Clay’s website.

About The Breath and the Clay 2021

Our theme for the 2021 gathering is re-enchantment. We live in a world fatigued with concerns of survival, disruptions of normal life, and for many, a loss of deeper, spiritual meaning. The notion of re-enchantment then becomes all the more important. Humanity shares a collective need for reverence, for wonder, for experiences of the sacred and the holy. The artist fills a particular role in rebuilding these bridges between the power of imagination, dreams, vision, the spiritual life and our everyday world.

My initial interest in re-enchantment as our theme for this year came from the writings of German sociologist, Max Weber. Around the turn of the century, Weber coined the word disenchantment, signifying that society had shifted from a religious, mythic or superstitious understanding of the world to a rationalistic, scientific view of the world. But after a hundred years since this shift in society’s view of the world, the human heart continues to yearn for transcendence, continues to yearn for meaning beyond the material world, and continues to ache with an ache that only a deep, abiding, spiritual connection can satisfy. It is the artist, more than most, whose work bridges the realm of everyday life with the realm of the heart’s yearning, the beautiful, the spiritual and the true.

I want to personally invite you to join our community online March 17-21 as we explore the relationships between art, faith and culture through the lens of re-enchanting the world.

- Stephen Roach