COLT SEAGER

Colt Seager (b. 1993) is an American painter and sculptor located outside of Chicago, IL. Through the interplay of formal and organic elements, his work has often been described as having “a quiet strength.” Inspired from spiritual moments in everyday life and nature, Colt uses textures, drips, and expressive mark making to capture his curiosity about the world around him. His work focuses on process, form, and space yielding an intuitive composition.

The Irish have an old teaching that there are places on earth where the atmosphere collapses and heaven falls to earth. They call them “thin places,” a place charged with sacredness, a place close to God. Whether a mountaintop or seaside cliff, a sunrise or sunset, a piece of music or fine art, thin places are wherever you have a sense of the divine, a sense beyond. Furthermore, a thin place is where the veil that separates heaven and earth is lifted and one is able to receive a glimpse of the glory of God. A contemporary poet Sharlande Sledge gives this description:

“Thin places,” the Celts call this space, Both seen and unseen, Where the door between the world And the next is cracked open for a moment And the light is not all on the other side. God shaped space. Holy.”

Thin Places are all about connection with God and the divine. They are ports in the storm of life, where one leaves that which is familiar and journeys into the Divine Presence. They are stopping places where we are given pause to wonder about what lies beyond the mundane, the grief, the trials and the boredom of day-today life.

I see my work as it evolves naturally—it develops through construction but it comes alive through its deconstruction. My goal is to offer an invitation into the thin place through abstraction, contemplation, exploration of form, and the rhythm of making marks—allowing one mark to carry into another—and in-sodoing, allow for a holy space where the Divine transcends closer to earth

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