Spencer Buchi

The Bible illustrates four kinds of love, the greatest of which is charity. To use the will in accordance with charity is to provide a kind of light and nourishment to another human. Like a flower, a human, under the right conditions, can bloom and blossom. God's intention for human life is an abundance of goodness and God gives generously to all and as a follower of Jesus I want to be able to extend that generous light and attention to others so that when they do bloom they can be the truest expression of themselves that God intended them to be, which is always good. Putting others before myself does not come naturally for me. I consider myself to be a selfish person and thinking and doing for others is hard, and I sometimes feel resentment about doing it. I feel like I have to be incentivized by God in order to even try to learn to love others the way He loves me. It's a practice, one which I choose to do because I do believe that there is only one true way for me to live, an...

  In 2019, I was searching for my higher power and I experienced a deep shift inside of me that helped me to recognize that Jesus is God. I came to believe that Jesus is alive and I encountered that living personality and it has changed the course of my life. Around this same time I experienced a shift in my perception of myself and I took a long look in the mirror - seeing the fool I am. My encounter with Jesus was like meeting someone steady, calm, and his love and transformative presence swept through my heart, my mind, my foolishness like a fire burning through an old house. I had been bringing my gift to the table without submitting it to God. With Jesus I can now begin to imagine the true potential that my life and gifts can have—to be of service in the lives of others.  I left this unfinished in places so that it can feel unresolved. I want to convey brief moments of significant psychological impact that felt intense and then faded into a memory over time. That memory i...

     I am interested in using surrealist techniques to develop deep and personal expressions and embedding the meaning of those expressions into abstraction. I started by writing the phrase “self-care” with my non-dominant hand as a way to prime my mind into thinking about what self-care means. I then created an automatic drawing with my non-dominant hand, which I used as a reference point for a sketch. I have abstracted that sketch to use in both drawings.        The exploration of self-care has caused some introspection on what I consider self-care to mean for myself. I identify setting boundaries with others and having alone time to recharge as ways I can practice self-care. I have also recognized that reaching out and trying to connect with others is important in my self-care practice.       I used mark making that invokes feelings of calmness and quietness in my mind. The repetition of patterns feels like a meditative practice for m...