Rebecca Wood

My artwork is a mix of hand-drawn and computer art inspired by the everyday. I hope to capture in my writing and my illustration both the beauty and horror of life and to celebrate the steadfastness of the hope that I have in Jesus Christ.

One of my favorite poets, besides John Donne obviously, is Gerard Manley Hopkins. His poem "God's Grandeur" expresses so well the dissapointment and hope we find in life:

Gerard Manley Hopkins expressed this struggle well in his poem "God's Grandeur":

THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings