Sublime

16Therefore say: Thus says the Lord GOD: Though I removed them far away among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a little while[25] in the countries where they have gone.

This architectural mode of enclosure and enfolding suggests sanctuary, retreat, and escape. From the narthex entry one is invited to lose oneself in this space that channels the pilgrim into a labyrinth of octagons and circles, inviting a wandering that seems to escape from the driven, goal-oriented ways we inhabit the “outside” world. The pilgrim

the word consecrate, which means “to set apart for sacred use,”

'vast, immeasurable sanctuary', and stressed the spiritual dimensions of memory. Augustine,

Create sacred physical and/or psychological space to make your art. This may be a corner in your bedroom with your laptop and an altar, a garage with an AM/FM radio, or an office with windows that open. “Space” could be your walk after dinner or the half hour you take in the morning to journal, a weekend in a motel with Wi-Fi, or a yearly silent re

sanctuary, in the way I think and talk about it, is this place where we gain different shapes, where we lose shape, where we compost. And how do we do that? We do it by listening, we do it by working together in ways that are probably fugitive and outside of the normative ways of producing food or money or stories. We do it by listening to our woun