Straight Line to Heaven
Theodore Prescott
Walker, Straight Line to Heaven, Book of Light
October 2011- October 2013
Location: Stearns Missions Center Lobby, Courtyard, Outside the Biblical Learning Center by the Music Building
Prescott’s pieces are a reflection of his desire to mix Christianity with modern culture. It is his hope that his art helps people to understand the importance for Christians to interact with culture.
“I think Christ also calls us to engage the forms and ideas in our larger shared culture. It is part of what it means to love our neighbors - to take their ideas, aspirations, and the work of their hands seriously.”
All artists are involved in a juggling act. They must focus on their materials and the skills needed to use those well, but at the same time they are looking for something: for a coherence that feels right, one that fits. So an artist creates a dialog between his materials and what motivates him to make things. Wooing materials into evocative forms, and coaxing one's ideas and intuitions to inhabit those forms are major parts of the creative act.
Theodore Prescott became a sculptor partly because he loves the
substances of the Creation. He does not distinguish between natural
materials and manufactured ones – all are part of the created order we
have been given, and all have uniquely poetic possibilities. Prescott is
also very interested in the gestures and stance of his constructions,
how they occupy the space they are in, and what their attitude and
presence suggests. Sculpture is visual, but also physical, and one of
its singular qualities is how we sense its presence with our bodies as
well as with our eyes.
The community is invited to visit this collection Monday through Friday
between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Guests are asked to register at PBU’s Smith
Administration Building—South Entrance, 200 Manor Avenue, Langhorne.
Artist Biography
Ted Prescott was born in Washington D.C. He received his MFA in Art from the Rinehart School of Sculpture, The Maryland Institute College of Art in 1970. He is a distinguished artist with pieces displayed in exhibitions and numerous journals. Prescott began and developed the visual art program at Messiah College and served as a distinguished professor. For more information visit www.tedprescottsculpture.com.
