We’re very happy to announce the opening of our first online gallery, featuring works by members of SPARKS, the arts collective of the Center for Process Studies. The theme is Concrescence. Alfred North Whitehead describes each actual entity as experiencing concrescence, the process by which “the many become one, and are increased by one.” Through concrescence, influences from the past are gathered into a new unity of experience.
This theme invites works that explore moments of gathering, transformation, and emergence. Concrescence may show up in your art as the layering of memories, the blending of voices or sounds, the combining of colors or textures, or the shaping of many influences into a single expression. How do you sense disparate influences coming together into a new whole? How does your creative process express concrescence?
Concresence features nine artists working across a wide variety of different mediums—we invite you to explore their work in the virtual gallery!
Artworks Featured in Concrescence
Holoeikon
Kaeti Leila MacNeil
Mixed media on paper (watercolor, black 4.0, pen, prismacolor)
Event Fractal
Dianna Padgett
Short essay and image
Echos of Flow
Andrew Brindle
Photography and micro-poetry
Concrescence
Elvi Bjorkquist
Painting | 36"x48" | Acrylics on Canvas | Diptych
COMPLEX HarmonY
Arlette Stella
Acrylic and mixed media
Stepping Out
Mary Helen Fagan
India ink on watercolor paper
A Storm Event
Anna Rubin (Composer) and Yen Ha (Artist)
Video and sound collage with electronic music, pen and ink drawings, and poem spoken in English, French, and Vietnamese
Concrescence
Peblo Nemo
Video (music, illustration, and video editing)
Richard Livingston
Dr. Richard Livingston is Program Director of Education and Community, former Executive Director of the Cobb Institute, and a member of the Process & Faith Core Team. He received his PhD in 2015 from Claremont Graduate University, where he specialized in Philosophy of Religion and Theology. Richard taught as an adjunct instructor in philosophy and religious studies at four colleges in Southern California from 2011-2020, and has worked in IT since the early 1990s. He holds a Master’s Degree in Constructive Studies in Religion from the University of Chicago (2005) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Near Eastern Studies from Brigham Young University (2001).