Rooted – Mattea Gernentz

 

 

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Rooted

 

Description:

This poem came to me during a December wander through the St Andrews Botanic Garden. I had visited the same spot in the summer, reading a book by the pond as people picnicked and chattered happily, and the scene of contrasting winter desolation disheartened me. However, I felt the Lord reminding me that He is keeping me rooted; though so much has changed within and without, He remains the same and is holding all things together.

 

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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