tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-194250482012-01-17T04:25:54.680-06:00"All good allegory exists not to hide but to reveal, to make the inner world more palpable by giving it an (imagined) concrete embodiment.” -C.S. LewisNatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03751718398897079625noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19425048.post-16963865311145351742011-08-30T12:28:00.002-05:002011-08-30T12:41:17.970-05:00

This thought occurred to me when I was ritualistically driving home from work one day: Once the rate of our physical movement exceeds the movement of our ability absorb our surroundings we lose our ability to focus. In short bursts where the temporary acceleration serves as an exception it is easy to revert back to a state of equilibrium. But, when the acceleration is the norm rather than a

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It has been well established that there are vibrant concerns for the future of the arts and the culture. To perceive the current crisis in the arts it might be good to look to the sciences for a pertinent analogy since scientists are the current locus of public thought in the search for truth. In the field of theoretical physics there is the well known rift between General Relativity Theory

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There is an unspoken foundational rule that most artists are put under in their training. This rule is sometimes never made explicit, but frequently reveals its shadowy presence over the critique wall like those clouds in cartoons that persecute a cursed individual, soaking them in misery. The rule goes something like this: “You are not what you create”, or during the analysis of art: “leave

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I believe that the rationalism of the Enlightenment can sometimes be intermingled too strongly with Biblical Christianity. Though it brought about many good challenges and products (systematic theology, cosmological arguments, true understanding of the Logos, etc.) the Age of Reason has pervaded the subconscious of the everyday believer in a very profound way. Though it is important to uphold

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For the past few years I have been captivated by highway overpasses. The architecture used is only there for function, but sometimes the results are haunting if not strictly elegant. There are several that I have observed where the thirsty grey concrete meets lush verdage in unexpected juxtapositions. I know that the performance they make through the seasons

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This is a relatively small piece constructed of individual ceramic tiles that have been infused with glass. These tiles have been attached to a curved wooden structure that causes it to emerge out toward the viewer.

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"Ecclesia" emerged on its own accord out of specific inklings I had towards Plexiglas during grad school. I had discovered that the transparency of the material was made more explicit when it was fractured and reassembled. The adhesive used to reassemble it left a layer of transparency on top of the already transparent plastic. Also the adhesive became opaque where two pieces of the plastic

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ColonyAcrylic, Wood, Laminated Wood2010 The title of a work can be a clue to its otherwise inaccessibleattributes, or it can be used as a way to lead the viewer into a larger world of experience within the confines of the material in front of their eyes. Colony is a word that connotes a bonding of individuals that brave some circumstance together. There is similarity of identity, yet division

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"Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him." Isaiah 36:6 (KJV) Behind this prophetic warning is a moral. When we attempt to do anything outside of the will of God it is precarious and even dangerous. The role of divine providence in our daily lives is one that

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Idol worship carries with it the capacity to keep the individual spiritually complacent. It has historically allowed rulers to more easily control a population by giving them a sense of social, cultural, spiritual, and ethical (sometimes ethnic) identity and unity. By giving them an image to focus on, the masses are placated and obtain a sense of fulfillment. (Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph,

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As creators of visual phenomenon, our images shape our culture. But the impact doesn’t end there because as the culture witnesses the image, it changes what the image means. This in turn alters the future of such images. I doubt, for example, that African craftsmen would ever conceive of their ceremonial masks as objects to be placed in plastic cases and isolated from experience as they

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"If a man watches his own mind, I believe he will find that what professes to be specially advanced or philosophic conceptions of God are, in his thinking, always accompanied by vague images which, if inspected, would turn out to be even more absurd than the man-like images aroused by Christian theology." C.S. Lewis, MiraclesFrom an experiential perspective we know that an individual stimulus can

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