Silent Starlit Communion
Framed Price $145 Catalog No. 84L-1
Signed and numbered. Unframed price $65
18" x 19" serigraph on white "Chromecoat" paper

In 1984, while house sitting for a very generous and spiritually minded woman named Mrs. Donovan, in Weston, Connecticut, I decided to make some Christmas cards. For about 3 years I made cards. This was I believe my first attempt at silk screening Christmas cards.

I imagined a very cold winter's night and a deeply snow covered hillside. On it, I placed several separate evergreen trees each of which seemed to be "mingling" with the others. Although very cold and still on this December evening, it somehow seemed fitting to think of them celebrating their own Christmas together in the quiet, peaceful ways that trees "commune." Could it be true they do "speak" to one another? Since it was nearly Christmas when this silkscreen was completed, I was thinking of a night (Christmas Eve) when our family would always travel to sing carols and play music together in Wilton, CT. I can remember the car rides to Wilton and all the winter wonderland scenes. These trees, although designed from the imagination capture the mood of peace and communion I often felt when traveling to the Vaulkenburg's house. These trees are alone on the snowy hill under a vault of stars. If trees could speak, I think they would be saying grateful things about the beauty of their surroundings. Possibly they would be praying together.