my good workplace january 2011

100_4499, a photo by debclarke art on Flickr.

trying to grab this pic, so i can add it to a facebook file. flickr won't allow me to download my pic. so, this is an experiment.  some of my communication tools because sometimes words don't come easily.

Schlueter rhymes with Peter means: keeper of the keys

in his own words Schlueter would one Easter Sunday preach:  "I hold the keys...".   the good keys that I have put to use for this art series come from my dear friend Nancy's dad "Norm".  these are good keys.  they are of good purpose, put to good use.  in their time.  i love that they were gifted to me.  Before putting these good keys to use i prayed:  to my use and thus to thy glory.  and under grace in perfect ways.

Key #1
heh.  the ford key in the middle?
schlueter would travel to europe on a vessel newly equipped to carry automobiles across the ocean.  two young men, later teens? early 20's? Howard C. (?) and Albert Sefton drove Schlueter throughout Europe,
this is 1929.  attested to through his diary, which is in my possession.

Key #2
Howard and/or Al served Schlueter at the altar; particularly the morning mass.  Schlueter was a priest, under vows to observe the hours.  He was priest; he could not transubstantiate the bread/wine unless he was served.  What?  he couldn't even consecrate a cup to his own salvation.  gramps would tell me:  he was all ritual, form.

best,
deb

PS:this truth written through me was shipped January 31st to the Sketchbook Tour 2012.  Will be in Lynn MA in July!

check it out:  Debbie Clarke.  theme:  Villains and Heroes. scraps in a pouch with enigmatic inferences/references.

begin by beginning

have spent the morning sorting keys and transferring the shapes to glass, along with photocopying some of schlueter's words.  i'm working with a theme of 'heroes and villains' for my sketchbook project.  where to begin?  from the man's own words i find the solution to difficulties of beginning is to begin.  the words of beginning that head this blog came straight out of one of my journals from the therapy years.  i counseled myself:  'just begin.  begin anywhere.  begin in the middle, begin at the end, just begin.' this in reference to opening the way to this art, this telling of the story of multi-generational, systemic abuse.

and so i have.

above:  'keeper of the keys'  detail from a work in progress.  the keys quiver and quake the closer i get to source.  and this is fodder for the redaction in progress.

Bless, oh Lord, this food to our use; and thus to thy Glory.
in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Amen'

a blessing learned  at the table.  spoken by gramp. gramp's
would later tell me:  He was very High Church, you know.  there were lots
of prayers.  remind me to tell you about his runny nose dripping into the communion cup.
  much later, i would offer the cup of salvation.  i was transfigured...felt it and was
witnessed by the Eucharistic minister.  i was in discernment, then.  she thought i would want
to be an Episcopal minister.  no.  full circle.  a grounding.  a reclaiming.  a consecration.

Redaction

"Awake, awake, Deborah. Awake, awake; utter a song."

an underlying theme in my writings, my art.

My journal/sketchbook for the 2012 Sketchbook Tour arrived a few days ago.  My theme:  Villains and Heroes.  It is a redacted story entwined with the oral/aural history of The Clarke Family through the

 4 generations associated with the St. Luke's Parish NYC, The Cornwall Bridge Farm with it's stone "Chapel of St. Joseph and the Angels" 

, a meddlesome priest, his mother, his sister.  

the first publication of the redacted history will be returned to The Brooklyn Art Library by mid-January.  The sketchbook will get catalogued, then sent on it's world tour.  the project will stop in Boston this year.

the following link will give you additional information about the The Brooklyn Art Library, Art-House Coop

Brooklyn Art Library Sketchbook Tour 2012

the 2012 tour sign-up is closed; but they have 5000 sketchbooks available for a Limited Edition!

Revision: The "Priest who in his day pleased his God"

mug shots, posters, boxes order through St. Luke's site

A journal, colored turquoise dated 1996 has the following entry, a re-cap of a conversation with Gladys :  You might write.  one day you should dig into all of those journals and write.  further notes to self in December 1996:  "start any where, just start and keep putting down words."

the link will take you to the St. Luke's Church photo site.  under the historical photo album you will find the 'much loved' "Father Schlueter".  His face belongs on the mug shot.

January 24, 2010:  the link no longer works. you may no longer get his mugshot.

Retirement: The Vicar of St. Luke's

Time Magazine: "Religion: Vicar of St. Luke's

a brief history of The Reverend Edward H. Schlueter's 40 years at St. Luke's in Greenwich Village, New York.

The winged bull is the 'logo' of St. Luke's.  St. Luke, the 'Beloved Physician", patron saint of artists.  I'm an artist, have never felt any affiliation with St. Luke as patron saint.  St. Luke's is where my grandfather's generation grew up, under the familial associations and direction of  "Father" Schlueter (pronounced Schleeter.  last name meaning:  the keeper of the keys, locksmith).

the following link takes you to the school's website.
a brief history of St. Luke's Chapel and school,

January 24, 2012:  The link to Time Magazine used to open to the full article.  it no longer does, unless you are a Time Magazine subscriber, you will only be able to read the first few lines. 

Research: Chapel of St. Joseph and the Angels

Chapel of St. Joseph and the Angels.  aka 'the Schlueter chapel' in West Cornwall Connecticut

this photo is the copyright Nori Muster, published in 2007.  placed here by her permission.

http://surrealist.org/travel/westcornwall2.html

she links to the Trinity Conference Center.  the place (the conference center) seems to have lost it's spiritual essence.  i wonder if they kept Schlueter's chapel.

the snippet above is found on the following link.

Connecticut Historical Records Survey