Snow
The endless stretch of white snow outside the window looks like nothing so much as a giant blank page. It’s exactly what this new year feels like… a clean canvas, […]
Tag Archives: art
A Heap of Broken Images
It has turned out to be a busy summer. From a bit of vacationing, to digging into the world of phenomenology in preparation for two giant comprehensive exams (the dreaded […]
Chaos and creation with Phil Irish
Full disclosure: I missed this recent show by Ontario-based artist Phil Irish. However, the artist was kind enough to allow me to share these images as well as answer a […]
Visions and dreams
Some great reading in the midst of my “comps” (comprehensive exams, the second stage of the TST doctoral program)… first off, this insightful book by Timothy Gorringe. And secondly, this […]
The Hart has reasons
I remember once trying to describe Jack Chambers’ experimental film The Hart of London to some less-than-interested conversation partners: ME (though less eloquently): “It’s one of the most striking films […]
Icons and hyper-icons
This is an icon of the “Hospitality of Abraham,” an Old Testament image which in the Orthodox tradition is a type of the Trinity. (The most famous version is […]
Required reading
I have a few things on the go at the moment, so can’t blog for long, but I do want to share some links: This piece by Brian McLaren responding […]
Pop culture, bloodletting and miraculous cures
Well, I’m a few days late but I did want to mention the Grammys on the weekend, which were quite a spectacle – from Cee-Lo’s dancing puppets to Justin Bieber’s […]
Art Church / Church Art
Something I’ve been thinking about recently is the phenomenon of art galleries popping up in churches. I don’t mean churches being converted into galleries, which is happening in some places […]
Kitsch
This is Gustav Dore‘s woodcut of the “Celestial Rose,” which illustrates a scene from near the end of Dante’s Paradiso: I quite like it and would even go so […]
