DESCRIPTION:

Borrowing lines from poems in Ranier Maria Rilke’s Book of Hours and excerpts of other significant texts, these new and expanded works by Coleman Stevenson explore the human drive to make more of our ordinary hours and days via relationships both human and divine. Using hand-rendered text as image, and chance-based monoprinting methods, Stevenson considers the dilemma of solitude, the nature of prayer and devotion, and the differences between habit and meaningful repetition as we cross thoughts together and weave our lives with the lives of others, creating in that inadvertent layering many tiny openings for spirit to enter.

BIO:

Artist and writer Coleman Stevenson is the author of three collections of poems (Light Sleeper, Breakfast, and The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609), and several books about the Tarot including The Dark Exact Tarot Guide and a series of cartomantic spread collections. Her writing has appeared in a variety of literary journals, anthologies, and websites. In addition to her work as a designer of tarot and oracle decks through her company The Dark Exact, her fine artwork, exhibited in galleries around the US, focuses on the intersections between image and text. Her education includes a B.A. in folklore from Indiana University and an M.A. in creative writing from Portland State University. She has been a guest curator for various gallery spaces and has taught poetry, tarot, design theory, and cultural studies for many educational and community organizations across the country, as well as online. She currently resides in southern Illinois. Learn more about her work at colemanstevenson.com.