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When a desire remains unfulfilled—when, for example, our viewing of a televised sporting event is interrupted—our frustration can create a sense of discomfort or longing, directing our focus toward the presence and intensity of desire itself.

From conversations with viewers, I’ve learned that their experience depends a lot on the physical presence of my work, not just the size but also how it connects with its surroundings.

Along with astronomy, Maker’s work borrows from biology, physics, chemistry, and—perhaps most importantly—geology.

Viewing all things inseparable—creativity and God as one and the same—certainly influenced my abstract expression.

Drawing from the source directly is the practice that I call art.

We often imagine the act of reading as one of pure intellect, but it has a physical dimension—paper, ink, hands that turn pages, eyes that take in light. By making the “consumption” of the text literal and embodied, almost uncomfortably visceral, I hoped to gesture toward the theological implications of our embodied state: we read with both our minds and bodies because we are bodily and ghostly, matter and spirit.

Devon DeJardin is a self-taught multimedia artist from Portland, Oregon, now based in Los Angeles. His paintings, drawings, and sculptures reference the body, forces of nature, and the application of philosophy to lived experience. His current work focuses on guardians-entities and forces that protect, guide, and challenge us to grow.   Image: Could you talk…

Hear this essay read by the artist, along with field sounds from the forest site in Finland.   —Striving to represent the world, we inevitably forfeit its direct presence. ——————————————— –David Abram I ARRIVE IN THE DARK SHIVER of January in Finland to begin work on my master’s degree in time and space arts. The…

The paintings were inspired by an old Bible with engravings of scenes from the Old and New Testaments.

NEAR THE REPUTED SITE of the Garden of Eden, an international team of environmental engineers, sewage treatment experts, and others are restoring historic marshlands in what has become a desert wasteland. They are creating a new Eden-not simply a public works project that will filter wastewater for the Ahwar region in southern Iraq, but also…