2020 Notes From Artists Dennis Eavenson and Sharon Eavenson On The House Cross Works

These artworks are founded on spiritual and psychological aspects about home as a symbol for a place of family, protection
and worship. Each piece projects feelings of heightened energy as areas become divided and intersected with line and
pattern. they represents the inner emotional and intellectual processes that make us uniquely human. The house acts as a
receiver and transmitter moving forces inwardly and outwardly. External ear like elements are receiving and and layers of
energy radiate in zigzags from the structure. The open doorway invites the viewer inside to explore and experience visual
intensities and emotional states. It opens a dialogue for relating to their own sense of being.

In a Christian context, the house itself is now the actual cross with a central square at the core and arms of half circles
radiating to the outer world. The doorway points up to the divided square area which offers the viewer visual stability. It
portrays, a sense of order and balance with diagonal equal opposing squares and continues pushing your eye up to the attic.
Here the tailed four square shape dominates the checkered space that is even more ordered and controlled hinting at ideas
about spiritual progression and higher states of existence. Eventually the eye travels upward to the outward expanses that
wrap the viewer back to the mouth like door entry for a complete visual cycle.

This visual movement is symbolic of our own paths to enlightenment. In the English Standard Version, John 14.2, Christ says,
"In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?". We see
this passage as the thematic basis for this body of work. These pieces further comment on current theories about space,
time, mass and energy; and how we are all is interconnected. For us, science amplifies our understanding of God.