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Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · 3d

The first time I saw this in action was a revelation… but also so obvious, simple and elegant.

Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · 4d

The cross I cobbled together with last year's Christmas tree, shovel handles, sheet foam insulation, an old elbow duct, conduit tubing, some decorative trim, part of a cross maquette I made many moons ago, strings from a mop, and zip ties. In Broadview for a vigil this weekend. #immigrantswelcome

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Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · 7d

It was a gift to gather with friends to sing songs of peace as well as lament the injustice around us, in Broadview today. #peace #protest

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Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · 14d

And here is Etude No 6. Joannès Rochut's arrangement for trombone/euphonium of a Marco Bordogni vocalise. #euphonium

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Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · 15d

Jesse played two of the Marco Bordogni etudes in church. Joannès Rochut arranged them for trombone/euphonium. Here is No 5. It is a great joy to play music with my kids (that's me on the piano). #euphonium #Rochut #Bordogni #etude

Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · 16d

What fun to run into the good Dr John Walford on my bike ride yesterday. His support of my young family and my work years ago were a huge part of me choosing to become part of the art department. #artatwheaton

Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · 28d

I'm donating half of the proceeds to Watermelon Sisters, a Chicago-based nonprofit providing humanitarian aid to Gaza through art and mental health therapy (watermelonsisters.org/gallery/). The 8x10" prints fit nicely in a standard 11x14" frame. I made about fifty of them.

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Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · 28d

I've recently made this 4-color Risograph print in two different color ways (on black and purple paper). The image references Munther Isaac's photograph "Christ in the Rubble" and the Palestinian concept of sumud (steadfastness). If you'd like one, click: jeremybotts.bigcartel.com/product/sumu...

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Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · Sep 23

The full video is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWlf...

Hildegard von Bingen — I Am that Great and Fiery Force

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Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · Sep 23

A video piece I made to celebrate the 12th century mystic Hildegard von Bingen. The tune is hers (spiritus sanctus vivificans) arranged by Benjamin Bergey, who also paired it with her text (below). It is included in the new Voices Together hymnal. #hildegardvonbingen

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Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · Sep 19

And where I breathe there is no death, and meadows glow with beauties rife. I am in all, the spirit's breath, the thundered word, for I am Life.

Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · Sep 19

I am that great and fiery force, sparkling in everything that lives; in shining of the river's course, in greening grass that glory gives.

I shine in glitter on the seas, in burning sun, in moon and stars. In unseen wind, in verdant trees. I breathe within, both near and far.

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Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · Sep 19

“I Am that Great and Fiery Force” by Hildegard von Bingen on her feast day (a day late). The 12th century Benedictine mystic was a polymath, composer, and founder of scientific natural history in the Germanic region of the Holy Roman Empire. Extraordinary. #HildegardVonBingen

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Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · Sep 17

new specs (as my grandpa charlie called them)

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Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · Sep 17

literally 🙃

Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · Sep 11

It was very meaningful to see our work together in a formal setting for the first time in many years (since Fr Michael Komechak invited us to exhibit at St Procopius abbey in the 90s!). The double owl hieroglyph sounds "mm" and was the basis for the tallest (10 foot) pillar.

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Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · Sep 11

I showed a selection of my glyph pillar sculptures, including a new one that morphed the Arabic word sumud (resilience) into kniyah, Hebrew for yielding (second image). I also hung eighteen large asemic scrolls on the walls around the sculptural works.

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Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · Sep 11

Some images from an exhibition I did with my dad this summer. We called it Bätzschrift (Botts-writing; our German name was anglicized from Bätz in the early 20th century), as all the works were connected to our calligraphic writing.

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Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · Sep 9

I love this Italian musical directive in Brahms' Horn Trio, Op 40: "quasi niente." There's so much there, and yet it is to be "almost nothing!" #brahms #musicalcomposition

Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · Sep 4

This 1499 depiction of what printing looked like (on a bad day). "Danse Macabre" by Mathias Huss in Lyon, France. A nightmare of a type case which looks to have required a key to its arrangement!

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Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · Aug 21

So smart! And lovely too.

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Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · Aug 19

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Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · Aug 19

“But man, even to himself, is a palimpsest, having an ostensible writing, and another beneath the lines.” Thomas Hardy (Far From the Madding Crowd). Anaïs Nin has some lovely words about letterpress printing too.

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Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · Aug 15

#FreePalestine #ImagoDei #salaam

Jeremy Botts @jeremybotts.bsky.social · Aug 15

A stencil I worked up. Will probably print up some posters. #FreePalestine #peace #salaam #shalom #letgazalive #imagodei #mennonite

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