Hope – Mattea Gernentz

 

 

Title:  

Hope

 

Description:

This poem describes the divine outpouring of hope present in all circumstances, bounding before us like a child and teaching us how to rejoice and see with fresh eyes. I asked my friends and followers on Instagram to send me recent moments of unexpected hope or joy in their lives, and I was surprised at the abundance of cherished experiences people shared. This ode is a weaving together of those images, creating a time capsule of how the Lord has been faithful even amid current sorrows and constraints. He infiltrates our everyday with radical hope.

 

Bio:

Mattea Gernentz is a postgraduate student in Museum and Gallery Studies from Franklin, TN. She completed her undergraduate education in English literature and psychology at Wheaton College and hopes to continue her love of storytelling through the vocation of art curation. You can always find her with a cup of matcha tea and a good book!

 

Author

  • Karen is finishing a PhD program in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts after careers in corporate management, consulting, and pastoral and theatre ministry. She explores theological and theatrical contexts of ’empty space’ and general human disposition toward it, with emphasis on improvisation (specifically Playback Theatre) and Holy Saturday. Since 2017, Karen has led or advised ITIA’s Transept group, a postgraduate-led group of multidisciplinary practicing artists. Karen was an editor for Transpositions from 2017 to 2022. As Editor-in-Chief, she fostered a closer partnership between Transpositions and Transept, hosted the In/break exhibition on the Transpositions site, and introduced regular series into the publishing schedule.

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