What is it about?
Alana Sawrey is a Brisbane-based artist who often uses whimsical characters to explore thoughts and ideas. In this project, Sawrey engages in imaginal dialogue with symbols (archetypes) that recur throughout her portfolio. This process is often used in art therapy to personify inanimate objects for conversation and to explore meaning. Through these dialogues, Sawrey finds that the archetypes stem from her Christian faith and suggest artmaking can be an effective prayer language. In this project, the two researchers analyse Sawrey’s imaginal dialogues with 14 symbols to reflect on the place of artmaking in a Pentecostal aesthetic expression, particularly as a form of visual prayer language.
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This page is a summary of: Praying through Artmaking, Journal of Pentecostal Theology, March 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/17455251-bja10069.
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