Day 82 - word art

"Work with words. Make an image with just words or letters."

shoe polish words on canvas.

I saw this idea a month or so ago, through a link on Pinterest, and have been wanting to do something similar. I've seen other art with words or lyrics and am always drawn to it. Song lyrics have a way of speaking to me in a powerful way, and I have wanted to use some to decorate my house. How to choose, though? There are so many songs that are meaningful to me.

Every once in a while, they play this song, "Beautiful Things" by Gungor, at my church, and it always moves me to tears. Honestly, I don't usually like much Christian music or even praise/worship music, but this song is truly beautiful, both sonically and lyrically. It has meant a lot to me over the past few months. Obviously, I could not include the full song lyrics on the canvas, so I took the most meaningful parts and planned out what I thought would fit. I let some of the letters/words run off of the canvas, leaving the intent but saving room for other words.

could a garden com[e up]

from this ground at [all?]

you make beautiful

things out of the dust

[you make beautiful things] out of us. hope is spr[inging]

up [from this old ground]. you make us new [you are making me new]

planning out the words, aided by a soy latte.

blank white canvas, 30"x48". so scary to take the first plunge!

I'm excited to hang this up on one of my newly-painted walls. And if I ever want to change the lyrics, I can just paint over this and do it again. Thank goodness for some creative inspiration today! It's been a rough week...hence the lack of posts. I'll catch up one of these days.

 Edit: Here it is, propped up over the fireplace: