Will 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 MoreA Conversation with Ron Austin
By Interview Issue 93
In the conversation around faith and film, Ron Austin is an elder statesman. He has worked a lifetime in the entertainment industry, and his essays and books, including In a New Light: Spirituality and Media Arts, have influenced generations of filmmakers (much of his writing is also on his website). His seminal essay “The Spiritual…
Read MoreJam Jars
By Poetry Issue 91
In classical physics, the past is assumed to exist as a definite series of events, but according to quantum physics…only as a spectrum of possibilities. —Stephen Hawking Too often they kept on surfacing suddenly, stifling…
Read MoreWhat about God?
By Poetry Issue 55
Why Believe in God? Over the past few years, the Image staff contemplated assembling a symposium based on this simple problem. But we hesitated. Should we pose such a disarmingly straightforward question to artists and writers, who tend to shun the explicit and the rational? Or were we hesitating because the question itself made us…
Read MoreIsland as the End of the World
By Poetry Issue 81
When did my life become the past? When did our new world, the new creation, the fulfillment of everything, become patience? We worship patience now. This island effaces with endurance, our lives that grow into longsuffering. A smile to notice how an island’s stony perimeter is much like the end of the world. How the…
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