Summer Reading List | Julia Hendrickson
Summer Reading List | Julia Hendrickson
Julia Hendrickson, River Bones (2022). Watercolor on Rives BFK, 22 by 30 inches.
For Artists Specifically
Art + Faith: A Theology of Making
Makoto Fujimura
If you are at all interested in the intersection of art and faith/spirituality, this book is a must-read. While Fujimura focuses on the Christian tradition this book, it is suitable for all belief paradigms as a model because it shows a detailed consideration of what it is to believe in a G-D who created and what that means for the human maker. Lots of excellent metaphors.
Writings
Agnes Martin
I hardly want to recommend this book because it is out of print and expensive, but the insight that Martin offers on the creative process and discipline makes me unable to not list it every time someone asks me about books for creatives. I have reached out to the publisher hoping that they will re-print it, but Martin did not allow for a re-printing. Nevertheless, this book is worth seeking out through an interlibrary loan. I think that it has informed and influenced my practice more than any other book.
The Principles of Uncertainty
Maira Kalman
I love the exuberance of Kalman. She exalts the virtues of cake and pie while confronting human mortality. Her historical repertoire is whimsically illustrated adding much-needed levity to the fraught ambiguity of our times. I specifically recommend this to artists who are assembling collections because while there are no specific directives on cohesion or partnering of text and image this book is a masterclass in all of that.
Julia Hendrickson, Ascending (2021). Watercolor and salt on Rives BFK, 22 by 30 inches.
General Reading
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Pip Williams
Who gets to decide which words are acceptable? Which words should be codified?
The Fifth Season
NK Jemisin
An excellent dystopian reflection, and exquisite world-building.
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
Victoria Sweet
How does medicine work? What should our healing systems incorporate? Written by an MD with a Ph.D. in Medieval Medicine
Julia Hendrickson
Julia Hendrickson is an artist and theologian. Because of her training in undergrad as a printmaker, Hendrickson has an attachment to multiples and is constantly replicating and editioning her paintings. Her primary medium these days is watercolor (Winsor & Newton Payne's Gray) & salt (Morton's Coarse Kosher) on paper (Rives BFK). She posts images and time-lapses of her work with reflections and questions on Instagram as an example of Opera Divina, daily work as prayer. In this way, Julia combines her M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Print | Media & her MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary. She is a Fujimura Fellow, and this means that she strives to be generative in acts of Culture Care. While waiting for paint to dry, Julia takes very long walks, documents flowers, & reads a fair amount.
