Conventional attitudes about gender as well as art can be rigid and unforgiving. Like steel, until it's been shaped by a sculptor's hands and tools, moved and shaped by original ideas. And like steel before it's been sculpted into a building, born of an architect's distinct vision.
Both sculptor Deanna Marsh and architect Gabriela Meyer look to God—to Soul, divine intelligence, the Inner Architect—as their source of inspiration. Each has faced gender-related challenges in practicing her art. But both of these artists know, with a certainty forged of experience, that (in Gabriela's words) everyone, female and male, expresses "the same God but in different ways." And that means (in Deanna's phrase) there can be "no barriers" to those reflecting a limitless source.
The artist in each of us has boundless opportunities to work in ways that help lift the discussion from beliefs that constrict to ideas that liberate.
