Homeless Jesus
I came across this amazing sculpture entitled Homeless Jesus in the April issue of Third Way. Apparently, it has been installed with a plague featuring words from Matthew 25:40: Truly, I say to you, as...
View ArticleHapax legomena
Cory Dugan, hapax: gospel #1 (matthew) I love this artwork by Cory Dugan, which is part of a series of works, all of which explore the notion of hapax legomena, words that only feature once in a...
View ArticleThe world would be desolate
I was struck by these thoughts on perception and the enlargement of the spirit, which I came across in an article in the journal Arts: The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies (vol. 28, no. 1)....
View ArticleEndless prayers
I love these two amazing contemplative artworks by Y. Z. Kami, which I discovered a while ago, again in the journal Arts: The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies (vol. 28, no. 2). Y. Z. Kami,...
View ArticleDisrupting the dance of ideology
In order for art to get beyond or behind [repressive] conventions of representation, in order to expose the ideology these conceptions serve, artworks should employ ‘dis-identificatory practices’ that...
View ArticleMaybe
Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us. From Mary Oliver’s poem ‘Franz Marc’s Blue Horses’
View ArticleGiant Picnic
On October 8, 2017, the anonymous installation artist known only as JR held a picnic at an enormous table constructed on both sides of the border fence that separates the Mexican city of Tecate from...
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