Mae Runions

Journey Triptych

G.F. Strong Rehab Hospital, 2008

I was engaged by chaplain Laura Sportack to create a work for a room that was just then being developed as an interfaith sacred space/prayer&meditation room. A nature theme was drawn from the geography of B.C. since patients came from all over the province. Images of ‘the journey’ were chosen to suggest comfort and support.

Sometimes I go on a journey by choice, sometimes by force of circumstance. Always I feel timid - courage is required.Sometimes I rejoice in what I see, sometimes I suffer, ask why. Always beauty will be there if I open my eyes, then joy will come. God with me on the journey. Never forget it.

Left panel: Returning Salmon

Could this be me returning to the God who made me? A tough and awesome journey.

Center panel: Morning Landscape…just waiting for me

Each day a new journey.

Right panel: Fireweed

A lot of beauty at this destination, previously a scorched and devastated place.