AwakenArts
Every life holds patterns, memories, images, and stories waiting to be recognized.
You already live with symbols. AwakenArts helps you recognize them, explore what they carry, and use image, poem, and reflection to understand your own story more deeply.
The Shadow Beside Her
AwakenArts · A four-week course
Symbolism in everyday life. Discover the images within familiar words, stories, art and faith.
For anyone curious about exploring symbols through art, language, and personal reflection. Over four weekly lessons, step through a Gate, walk a Path, carry a Lamp and cross a Bridge, with an illustrated Symbol Card and Symbol Card Game in every lesson.
No previous experience required.
Explore the CourseAwakenArts, The Stories that Shape Us
Sometimes an image stays with you.
“We’ve put up walls.”“I’m at a crossroads.”“It became a stepping stone.”
Some symbols are inherited. Some are encountered. Some are chosen.
A Personal Invitation
An image you wear, an object you treasure, a symbol from Scripture, or something that keeps appearing in your life.
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Queen Ann
Christian Symbols
A lamp. A path. A flower. A vine. A shepherd.
Ordinary things become carriers of meaning.
“He did not say anything to them without using a parable.”
Matthew 13:34
Explore the collection through image, poetry, and conversation. Notice what draws you in and how it connects with your own experience.
Or begin with the four-week Journey into Symbols Course.
Now offering: Mermaid Grismere: Beneath the Surface
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AwakenArts explores human experience through symbolic poems, figures, and literary encounters. Rather than offering fixed interpretations, the work invites readers into a process of recognition through image, language, and reflection.
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