The Day of Big Trouble
By Fiction Visual Art Issue 110
How a thing looked was important. Not just Is it useful, but Is it nice to look at. Trees made fruit, and fruit is useful, he’d said to Zeke. But before fruit comes flowers, and there’s not a thing to be done with them but look.
Read MoreThe Theory of Longing: Two Works at the A.J. Heschel School
By Visual Art Issue 109
I came to see the ark in this space as a kind of well at the heart of an imaginary landscape, the symbolic source of life. This metaphoric landscape is a constant reminder of the longing for the physical Holy Land.
Read MoreIn the Studio
By Visual Art Issue 109
An artist’s role is to awaken all senses so that we are truly alive and active… Physical connection, especially in the performing arts, is essential for creation.
Read MoreStranger Fruit: American Pietàs
By Visual Art Issue 109
Jon Henry photographs Black mothers and sons across America.
Read MoreCurator’s Corner
By Visual Art Issue 108
Meaning does not only happen when we make it. We make meaning out of a world that is already meaningful.
Read MoreWill We Feel Nostalgia for 2020?
By Visual Art Issue 108
At present, we are standing inside of the pandemic, and so its bitterness defines first and foremost how we feel about it.
Read MoreStations in the City
By Photo Essay Issue 108
I think the stations are for everyone, no matter your religious affiliation, because they are a meditation on being human, so I wanted people to see them without the hurdle of having to enter a religious space.
Read MoreCurator’s Corner: Prospect New Orleans
By Visual Art Issue 107
For many years the notion of spirituality in art seemed sort of taboo, but we’ve both consistently worked with artists who draw on notions of ritual, religious iconography, the otherworldly, and spirituality in their work or process.
Read MoreThe Cleft in the Rock: A Theology of Negative Spaces
By Visual Art Issue 107
And yet attentive artists and viewers understand that negative spaces are integral to compositions, and at times even the key to understanding them. From a theological perspective, they can constitute gateways to the sublime, eliciting a sense of more-than.
Read MoreIn the Studio
By Visual Art Issue 107
I love how it changes color with different kinds of light—it’s a different image in the morning than in the evening. Or the color shifts as the viewer moves position. The painting has a little life of its own.
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