96: Writing Icons Part 2 (with Elizabeth Zelasko)
Do Something Beautiful
Leah Darrow
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Leah interviews iconographer Elizabeth Zelasko. They talk about the importance of religious art (no matter what style you're drawn to) and how exactly to pray with icons.
Check out Elizabeth Zelasko's art at ElizabethZelasko.com
Challenge from Elizabeth:
1 - Take an inventory of the images you're feeding yourself with. Be mindful of what you're looking at.
2- If you don't have a prayer corner in your home, create one!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Do Something Beautiful podcast. I am your host Leah Darrow and I share with you |
| 0:07.4 | inspirational people who are truly doing something beautiful to make our world better. |
| 0:12.2 | We are inspired by Mother Teresa who said, |
| 0:15.0 | do something beautiful for God. |
| 0:17.0 | Do it with your life, do it every day, |
| 0:19.0 | do it in your own way, but do it. |
| 0:30.0 | Let's talk about the importance of why we should have some of the sacred art in our home and then how to pray with these icons. |
| 0:32.0 | Ricky and I have just started slowly incorporating icons into our home. |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah, just slow I mean I remember to be honest with you and this is before I really knew and I still |
| 0:48.0 | don't know a ton but I'm a little bit more familiar now because of what you've |
| 0:52.1 | contributed and taught me and the ladies inside |
| 0:55.5 | lux you with iconography and Father Michael and his explanations too but I was first drawn to this particular image I was looking I was first drawn to this particular image. I was looking I was in Rome. I was on a |
| 1:06.4 | pilgrimage and I was looking for an image of the Seven Sorrows of Mary and |
| 1:11.4 | are leaving most sorrowful heart and I would always look for one |
| 1:15.3 | I never just found one that I connected with or I liked probably do in part to your explanation of like the |
| 1:20.8 | painting like there is an image of Mary but I kind of just |
| 1:23.2 | didn't like how they like made her hair that color or her face that color and I'm like I mean I |
| 1:29.1 | don't have a Polaroid of Mary but I just kind of feel like that doesn't seem to fit what I think Mary |
| 1:36.2 | should look like. I don't know. |
| 1:38.2 | Sure, yeah. And so I would always pull away. Anyways, I'm in a gift shop in St. Peter's and there is an icon of the Seven Stars of Mary and it has the swords in her heart, the seven swords. |
| 1:54.2 | And it was more in the style of, you know, |
| 1:58.7 | iconography or whatever. |
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