Stories are lived, told, and appear throughout our lives.
AwakenArts explores what our stories tell us.

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Story, poetry, image, and shared experience.

Queen Ann — a painted figure standing within a symbolic narrative, central to the AwakenArts identity
The AwakenArts Collection — poetic encounters in shape, symbol, and story — six framed visual-literary works displayed as a gallery wall

AwakenArts, The Stories that Shape Us

We use metaphors so routinely that we stop noticing how often images appear in the language we use.

“We’ve put up walls.”“I’m at a crossroads.”“It became a stepping stone.”

The images are already there. We use them to give shape to our experiences.

Queen Ann — the poem, rendered in concrete poetry form
Queen Ann — a crowned figure in windswept hair and flowing gown, standing before a castle at sunset.

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Image and language can reveal what experience has been trying to tell us.

Each workshop brings the work into conversation with our own experience.

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Christian Symbols

Scripture Speaks in Symbols

A lamp. A path. A flower. A vine. A shepherd.
Ordinary things become carriers of meaning.

A quiet path opening onto calm water, where a sailing ship waits beneath a soft horizon

He did not say anything to them without using a parable.

Matthew 13:34