Fashioner by Cindy Van Kley  Image: I'm not sure why the name "Fashioner" evokes different images than that of "Creator", but it almost seems to me that as the Fashioner, God started to get fancier and more diversified in the potentials of all created things. Like the seed that can potentially develop into a tree, flower, fruit, and reproduce itself with more seeds inside the mature fruit, but then all the little things we might think of as genetic "glitches" take place and we get newer and tastier and prettier and lusher varieties add to the beautiful diversity of that already complex creation. That's some fancy fashioning right there!! As humans tasked with trying to emulate all the attributes of God, we can use our arts (visual, literary, dramatic, musical, etc.) constructively, using His power, by calling on God, the Fashioner for assistance. Anyway, this is the quote that sparked my thinking and inspired this painting:

“Through the mere revelation of the word ‘Fashioner,’ issuing forth from His lips and proclaiming His attribute to mankind, such power is released as can generate, through successive ages, all the manifold arts which the hands of man can produce.” Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, LXXIV, p. 141-2 (1952 ed.)
I'm not sure why the name "Fashioner" evokes different images than that of "Creator", but it almost seems to me that as the Fashioner, God started to get fancier and more diversified in the potentials of all created things. Like the seed that can potentially develop into a tree, flower, fruit, and reproduce itself with more seeds inside the mature fruit, but then all the little things we might think of as genetic "glitches" take place and we get newer and tastier and prettier and lusher varieties add to the beautiful diversity of that already complex creation. That's some fancy fashioning right there!! As humans tasked with trying to emulate all the attributes of God, we can use our arts (visual, literary, dramatic, musical, etc.) constructively, using His power, by calling on God, the Fashioner for assistance. Anyway, this is the quote that sparked my thinking and inspired this painting: “Through the mere revelation of the word ‘Fashioner,’ issuing forth from His lips and proclaiming His attribute to mankind, such power is released as can generate, through successive ages, all the manifold arts which the hands of man can produce.” Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, LXXIV, p. 141-2 (1952 ed.)