The month of June summons up thoughts of blue skies, green meadows, still waters--and the Good Shepherd. My selection of works from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection on this favorite theme has a different twist this time around. All eight new images are "text art" pieces incorporating words and passages from Psalm 23. Ohio Woodworker Elijah Pierce gives us the "headline" of the Psalm in a painted low-relief carved plaque. Outsider Artist Reverand Benjamin B.F. Perkins from Alabama has written out the whole text in red block letters on a framed panel. Texas Commercial Artist Kate Krause Ball has reproduced Psalm 23 in the style of an illuminated Celtic manuscript in her mass market print from the 1950s, while Contemporary Kansas City Designer Megan Watson replicates the style of advertising copy from that same era in a digital art print. New York Collage Artist Michael Albert shatters the words and letters of Psalm 23 into bright cubist fragments; Chinese Artist Rong Frung Wang renders them in Chinese Calligraphy; and they appear in the original Hebrew on a glazed ceramic tile (left) from the Karakashian Family workshop in Jerusalem's Old City. In what is, certainly, the most unusual image in the series, the much-loved words of the Psalm have been written on an open book beside a portrait of the Suffering Christ and framed within a barbed-wire heart in an ink drawing of a prison cell by American Inmate Andres Cabrera. This new selection of Psalm 23 "text art" can be found in The Good Shepherd gallery in the Themes of Faith section. (John Kohan)