Making Mystery Accessible to our Eyes

Have you ever seen an image you’ve never seen before four times in one day?

What synchronicity (mystery?) when it happens!

Four times in one day

Four people in the image.

(The beauty of a visual quatrain.)

A “coincidence”(?) asking us to see in a new way?

Trinity, by Andrei Rublev, 13th century

I started the day with some reading and was stopped in my tracks by this image in Suzanne Guthrie’s post

A few hours later, I walked into church, sat down, and saw this when I looked up…

“If you look, there’s a place where a fourth person could sit and no one is sitting there. Art historians have looked at the original icon… You see that little rectangle under the chalice? These experts feel it’s the remnant of glue. And you know why? Because the original icon had a mirror there.” Diane McGehee (June 15 - One in Love)

Two more images showed up later in the day… Two completely different sources, using completely different ways to paint the same icon.

Trinity – After Rublev, Southwark, by contemporary artist Meg Wroe. from this post

Icon of the Holy Trinity, Ivanka Demchuk, seen on Bluesky

I do not wish to approach Iconography as an art form that simply follows an inherited tradition, knowledge, and practice. I want it to be a ‘holy pondering’, meditation, and process that potentially brings about a new way of seeing for the viewer and me. Kelly Latimore