The French painter George Seurat’s technique—Pointillism, or Neo-Impressionism—was painstaking. He used tiny, detached strokes of pure color, a multitude of colorful dots. Gazed at up close these are so small as not to be distinguished as part of a design., but together they make one grand composition. Those tiny dots of color, seen alongside other dots of differing tones—red, blue, yellow or their complements—suggest outlines and shapes of things.
Art critics say those tiny dots add a shimmering quality of light to the painting; all make their own special kind of order. Seurat believed that one dot of color placed close to another suggested to the eye of the viewer still another color; they also suggested varied shapes and figures. The colors are not in the individual dots but result from the relation to the many other dots.
Every community, team, and parish is made up of little and varied dots of faith and love. Each one of us is of a different color and shape and carries its own quality of light. When these individual talents are free to be what they are, to reflect their own true color, to stand by but in concert with the differing talents of others, they can shimmer together; they can set up the patterns and outlines of teamwork, of cooperation and of community.
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