An eye for beauty is not just a gift—it’s a vocation—a sacred participation in the role of the Creator. Artists, designers, and creatives all share in this ability to bring forth the beautiful—something that makes people stop for a moment and wonder. But, what is beauty? Where does it truly come from? 

In today’s world that is tainted by a lack of peace and riddled with distraction, beauty remains as something that points towards the otherworldly. It seems as though it’s the echo of something greater that our souls thirst for. It only makes sense for God to be the one and true source of this delicacy. God is Beauty and He is revealed in all that is beautiful. We see in Romans 1:20:

“Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. So they are without excuse.”

Through everything He has created, He is revealed. As a designer, someone who takes joy in this carefully and intentionally designed creation, I’ve been entrusted by the ultimate Artist and Creator with the sacred calling of reflecting and bringing this beauty to the world. In Pope St. John Paul II’s Letter to Artists he says,

“Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.”

By admiring and capturing the beauty of living, I hope to invite others to see the sacred woven into the ordinary—to create moments of wonder where they might notice and behold the True God. These sacred encounters are meant for the everyday, because we all hold within us the longing for something deeper and the eyes to see wonder, if only we choose to look.