Revealing Potential
In the present world, our capacity to receive divine revelation and to interpret divine truth is unfinished and unperfected. This reflective piece from a participant researcher on the TheoArtistry: Text & Image scheme blends academic and personal commentary to dwell on this imperfect relationshi...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:interfaces_11968 https://doi.org/10.4000/16ovh en https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/11968 2026-08-26T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/16ovh https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Revealing Potential Interfaces Université Bourgogne Europe info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2647-6754 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1164-6225 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces Walker, Rebecca révélation image divin potentiel sens perte texte collaboration revelation image divine potential meaning loss text collaboration In the present world, our capacity to receive divine revelation and to interpret divine truth is unfinished and unperfected. This reflective piece from a participant researcher on the TheoArtistry: Text & Image scheme blends academic and personal commentary to dwell on this imperfect relationship to revelation and unpack the creative process which led to the final artwork titled Potential. Intended deliberately to obfuscate the relationship between text and image, the piece highlights losses and failures within the human attempt to grasp the divine. Simultaneously, it invokes the positive connotations of the word “potential” by seeking to evoke a Christian hope for things unseen and for all that is yet to be made perfect. Underpinning the double meaning of the artwork is a commitment to seeing the collaborative process between artists and researchers as itself containing “revealing potential,” which is to say the possibility of producing new knowledge and forming new connections which enable us to see and hear more clearly. Dans le monde actuel, notre capacité à recevoir la révélation divine et à interpréter la vérité divine est inachevée et imparfaite. Ce texte réflexif, rédigé par une chercheuse participante au programme TheoArtistry: Text & Image, mêle commentaire académique et personnel pour réfléchir à cette relation imparfaite à la révélation et analyser le processus créatif ayant mené à l’œuvre finale intitulée Potential. Conçue délibérément pour obscurcir la relation entre le texte et l’image, cette œuvre met en évidence les pertes et les échecs inhérents à la tentative humaine de saisir le divin. En parallèle, l’oeuvre invoque les connotations positives du mot « potentiel », en cherchant à susciter une espérance chrétienne en ce qui est invisible et en tout ce qui doit encore être rendu parfait. Au cœur du double sens de l’œuvre se trouve une conviction que le processus collaboratif entre artistes et chercheurs possède lui-même un « potentiel de révélation », c’est-à-dire la possibilité de produire de nouvelles connaissances et de créer de nouveaux liens qui nous permettent de voir et d’entendre plus clairement. urn:doi:10.4000/16ovh |
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In the present world, our capacity to receive divine revelation and to interpret divine truth is unfinished and unperfected. This reflective piece from a participant researcher on the TheoArtistry: Text & Image scheme blends academic and personal commentary to dwell on this imperfect relationship to revelation and unpack the creative process which led to the final artwork titled Potential. Intended deliberately to obfuscate the relationship between text and image, the piece highlights losses and failures within the human attempt to grasp the divine. Simultaneously, it invokes the positive connotations of the word “potential” by seeking to evoke a Christian hope for things unseen and for all that is yet to be made perfect. Underpinning the double meaning of the artwork is a commitment to seeing the collaborative process between artists and researchers as itself containing “revealing potential,” which is to say the possibility of producing new knowledge and forming new connections which enable us to see and hear more clearly. |
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