David is a multimedia artist and filmmaker seeking glimpses of the eternal—whether films or installations or Ignatian meditations. He lives in Orlando, FL and loves his eclectic life of family, foreign films, backpacking, and breweries. He is the co-founder of the Cinnabar film series and the Center for Creative Discipleship and a facilitator and graduate of the Brehm Residency.
I chase, collect, and create glimpses of the eternal.
I am a witness to the Love at the root of all things.
As a creative contemplative, I open doors where people may encounter the living God—and come alive.
I craft meditations and immersive, communal experiences exploring the possibilities in everyday lives and spaces. I create multimedia art as memoir of my wounds and wonders.
show me the way i should walk in
multimedia installation, 2021
Contemplation is that life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder…It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent and infinitely abundant Source.
—Thomas Merton
a glimpse of the eternal, which is love
digital photograph projected through glass, 2020
This self-portrait actually depicts my son, immersed in delight and a luminous, delicate landscape. The image is thinned and curved as it is projected through glass, a sensitive tuning to where the light presents itself out of a mysterious and mesmerizing origin. This portrait imagines the interplay of the eternal and ordinary, and visualizes the latent presence that surrounds us everyday.
The image is an entire world reflected as in a drop of water.
—Andrei Tarkovsky