In Mystery and Substance, artist Lori Fox embarks on a multi-disciplinary exploration of faith and the unseen. Through a diverse range of media—including printmaking, watercolor, oil pastel, wood ash, sketching, braille, gold gilding, and assemblage—Fox examines the human desire to give form and language to what is often intangible: "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

The series consists of over 20 works that attempt to speak to the ineffable. Throughout the year she worked in the print studios of artist Joan Wintor of Dallas and Flatbed Studios in Austin, TX as well as her uncle’s house, who is blind and generously lended his Perkins Briller, and her own studio in Fort Worth, TX. What began as an idea to create faceless icons evolved into a deeper, more layered inquiry into sacred image-making and spiritual presence. This journey led Fox to Crete, Greece, where she studied the artistry and significance of traditional Greek icons. While visiting Ekklisia Agios loannis Greek Orthodox Church at Ai Giannis Beach, she was granted the opportunity to make pressings directly from the icons housed there—pressings that later became foundations for further experimentation in printmaking and watercolor. Each pressing was soaked in the Sea of Crete and dryed on the cliff side with wildflowers and foraging goats.

Mystery and Substance is an offering for those navigating spiritual transformation—particularly those who have deconstructed former beliefs and continue to move forward with an inner, often wordless, sense of knowing. These works aim to hold space for mystery, reverence, and the courage to believe in what cannot always be seen.

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