Murmur - by Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch

Murmur - an encaustic installation

Starlings fly in Murmurations.

Groups held together in wondrous community not by a leader, but by each bird responding to the five or six alongside. Altogether this murmuring connectivity creates the awe-inspiring designs in the sky we humans look up to in amazement and delight.

Murmur is my response to the visceral wonder of Murmurations. To recreate the emotions which watching a Murmuration evokes has resulted in

Murmur An Encaustic Installation Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch

From now on, wherever you go, and wherever I go, all the ground between us will be holy ground. And when he left I knew that he had revealed to me what community really means.

Henri J. M. Nouwen Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life

New Editions, Lexington, has not yet seen an installation of this magnitude, and for us to pull this off, never mind engage collectors, was a hurdle we agreed to jump together. Collaboration was the only way it would come to be. Community was what it built upon and spoke to. Commitment was what it required.

“. . . an agony of gladness . . .”

Frederick Buechner (phrase from Clack-Clack)

3000 4"x4" panels were created for this installation

Individual 4" panels that make up the installation

Detail of individual panels

I am beyond grateful, in these last few swooping days before the reception. I stand in awe and wonder that, what I saw in my mind’s eye as it grew and changed, has been made real.

There is so much more that can be said of this amazing exhibit. Murmur holds life of its own, and I suspect — no I know — it will grow murmurs of its own. To Creation. To Community, Collaboration, and Commitment. Murmur on.

I paint to express. To tell. To evoke. To invoke. To rise and flow emotion. To tell a story. Sometimes vaguely rendered. Sometimes explicitly stated. Sometimes not seen until everything comes together.

Murmur: An utterance traveling from one to another. Passing on of a message; quickly, succinctly.

Simply. Like Starlings, connect, commune, encourage, and in that, delight a greater something watching, feeling, sensing.

Patricia Baldwin Seggeruch

Let’s get back to that.

Make it simple.

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