Stories are lived, told, and appear throughout our lives.
AwakenArts explores what our stories tell us.

When Images Become Words
And Language Shapes a Path

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A black chess-piece silhouette beside a queen figure formed from the words of her own story -- the AwakenArts word-figure illustration
The AwakenArts Collection — poetic encounters in shape, symbol, and story — six framed visual-literary works displayed as a gallery wall

Workshops

Images can reveal what experience has been trying to tell us.

Each workshop brings the work into conversation with our own experience.

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A dark sky heavy with clouds breaking open to warm gold light along the horizon -- the threshold into the Queen Ann encounter

AwakenArts, The Stories that Shape Us

You already speak in images. We all do.
AwakenArts brings image and language into conversation,
exploring familiar images leading to further understanding.

“We’ve put up walls.”“I’m at a crossroads.”“It became a stepping stone.”

Queen Ann — the poem, rendered in concrete poetry form
Queen Ann — a crowned figure in windswept hair and flowing gown, standing before a castle at sunset.
A quiet path opening onto calm water, where a sailing ship waits beneath a soft horizon -- the threshold into this section's Scripture and symbols

Christian Symbols

Scripture Speaks in Symbols

A lamp. A path. A flower. A vine. A shepherd.
Ordinary things become carriers of meaning.

Jesus taught through image, story, and metaphor. He did not surrender the Truth He carried. AwakenArts works within that tradition while engaging literature, psychology, mythology, folklore, and a long history of human imagination.

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“He did not say anything to them without using a parable.”

Matthew 13:34