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Here lies the haunting wreckage of a US Navy DC-3 that ran out of fuel and was forced to crash land on the black sands of the Solheimasandur in south Iceland. The year was 1973, and all of the crew are said to have survived, but the wreckage remains in this desolate glacial floodplain to this day.

I am both a religious thinker and an artist. My undergraduate work was in the graphic arts, and my graduate studies were in the philosophy of religion and theology. As the son of a high school art teacher, I was raised in an environment that held as sacred the simple act of slowing down and noticing that which we typically take for granted. My work in theology has taken this insight into its very heart. I've been fascinated with the idea of salvation and the way that forms of prayer which emphasize stillness, silence, and release make room for its experience. These theological sensibilities are almost identical with the generative moment in the creative process. Creativity is, in its essence, the bringing of newness into the world. It's...