An artist is known by their fruit in season! Let’s be fruity now!

A tree is known by its fruit. An artist by how they serve with their art. A person’s heart laid bare and made known by how it responds in traumatic situations like ours.

As I watch how my art friends-both people and certain cities-are using their gifts to offer hope and care into this global tragedy, i thought about the gift of the artist–in some ways less tangible, but which is capable of changing hearts and renovating the global imagination! That’s no small gift. And it’s needed now. Symbols and art can be healing. And sometimes the priest has to pray first for the good of the whole!

What can an artist or artistic symbol making city do, but try to symbolize hope, empathy and solidarity with our global family who is currently suffering. Isn’t that the artist’s moral duty–to use their unique gifts to serve and love others.

Nice when a person or city chooses to use their unique resources to do so! For symbols are also a type of heart currency of the imagination, which we can invest in the healing our neighbors.

Each family member has it’s gifts to contribute, let’s contribute ours–to all my creative friends and symbol making cities! Let’s be fruity and bear good fruit now, when it’s needed most!

Let’s be the opposite of propaganda, let’s be fine art for one another! And offer our gifts freely to those in our family who are in need. Even if all we offer is the fragrance or image of Hope, let’s at least play our part in Love’s grand drama, which we are all in! Art makes a way for Love. to enter! Let’s be the palm branches the donkey walks over to enter the city of God! Or the guiding signal projected on the sky, or the hopeful graffiti on urban walls, which help people find their way to safety and haven, and back to family, which we all are.

My sister is a medical trauma intervention doctor. I’m an artist. We need both right now! Clear symbols of hope, empathy and solidarity can guide a person to the find the hospital.

Other’s can offer housing, some financial resources, but we can offer symbols of living Hope and empathy. Let’s at least do that much in this grave hour. Let’s be and make signs of Life.