Reconciled Among the Stars: A Speech by Artist Makoto Fujimura

This speech is a prayer: a prayer uttered in the liminal zone between art and religion, a prayer to repair the schism between the two, a prayer to be-in T.S. Eliot's words - "reconciled among the stars."

I pray that some day, in the near future, our children and our grandchildren will see an age when faith and life, art and scholarship, the rational and the intuitive will be so integrated that there will no longer be a need for this award.