How we see ourselves

Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington

Design by Chuck Hoffman © Genesis+Art

When we started to create art together on the same canvas we began connecting our names with a +. We see this symbol as the connection we share as a married couple and as creative collaberators. It is the archetypal shape for relationship. The vertical being the Divine and the horizontal the earth. We have found over the years we sign our paintings, writings and just about everything we do with Peg+Chuck or Chuck+Peg. It’s our dance that forms our intertwined relationship. When we sign our art we include our dance image, an image we created for our wedding union years ago.

We consider our art making together as a quest into an archetypal wilderness where we encounter the other – both inner and outer. On this spiritual plane it always requires embracing the other as oneself and crossing over the boundary – not becoming one or mixing things up but holding the sameness and difference delicately and mindfully in that tension. It can guide us into mystery and wonder where our soul is the dream of the other. Dancing together under the heavens.

See more conversation in SPIRIT and ART.