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Welcome!
Often, people
ask me “What do you paint?” My response, “anything I want.”
WHAT
I paint is not the key to the
paintings, but WHY I paint. What you can see is the
product. What you can't see is the PROCESS and that is where
the desire and the need reside. “I know mine and mine know me.” It
is the experience of getting “inside the face of God.” It is being
made in the image and likeness of the CREATOR.
Fr.
Stan Kolasa, ss.cc. |
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Seeking the holy:
All the paintings other than the painting of this cross and candle, from my first year in the seminary, 1962, are recent. Back then, I thought that for paintings to be of the HOLY they needed to be of holy things. I learned that ALL things are of God and are holy. It is our life task to seek the holy in all things. The painting of the yellow house is the rectory I lived in when I was a member of the SS.CC. Mission in the Bahamas; the reflection in the glass is of me looking at what I had made and what it had made me! Kalaupapa, Moloka'i, Hawaii.....even paradise has its clouds, especially here at this spot where they last forever.
The tug boat is a painting of the beauty of strength. The rooster, whose name is Rudy, is a wonderful pet, filled with life and color. The three women of the Red Hat Society are of an age of being made young again. The image of a Native American man's head is burned into a deer skin hide and is filled with longing and searching. The picture of this adobe building in New Mexico is of a texture and color that touch the soul. Another adobe building in New Mexico; this one with artwork on display. This painting of the two Aspen trees was done with putty knives, the kind one uses on a house. For me it’s an experience of the smallness of the person. And the lake and the pine trees are simply the last painting I did during my vacation when I didn't want to stop painting or contemplating, and so, I painted where I would like to remain; not the place, but how it feels. And, there are so many more paintings and experiences of God-life. Welcome to the inner world of this artist.
Fr. Stanley Kolasa, ss.cc.
Seeking the holy:
All the paintings other than the painting of this cross and candle, from my first year in the seminary, 1962, are recent. Back then, I thought that for paintings to be of the HOLY they needed to be of holy things. I learned that ALL things are of God and are holy. It is our life task to seek the holy in all things.
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Rev.
Stanley Kolasa, ss.cc.
Our Lady of the Assumption Church
47 South Sixth Street,
New Bedford, MA 02740
Phone: 508-994-0106
Email: stanatoloa@comcast.net |
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