My coaching assignment from three weeks ago was to reflect on what I’d like people to say about me when I die. My report on that reflection is due today, and frankly, though I’ve put a good bit of time into thinking about it, I don’t have it done. It’s a funny question, more troublesome [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘art’
January 20, 2010
Making Worlds
We encounter the world through our senses. Light hits the eye’s photoreceptors and the optical information starts its split-second journey toward the visual cortex in the occipital lobe, then on to the frontal cortex, and perception begins. Same with sound, smell, taste, and touch; the various systems involved in each leap into action as stimuli [...]
October 1, 2009
Seeing a Master – Andrew Wyeth’s Helga
So we’re taking one day a month for spiritual retreat and renewal, and I hadn’t gotten to mine yet, so yesterday, I took half a day. I spent the early morning reading from the prophet Isaiah and from Matthew’s gospel, then went on to Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton, and then to poetry by [...]
September 14, 2009
Watching My Friends Work
Last Friday night, Greenwood held it’s monthly 2nd Friday artwalk. As part of that event, Taproot Theatre staged its own entry: the making of a portrait. The artist was my good friend Sam Vance, and his subject was another good friend, Nikki Visel. The impetus for this was a scene from Taproot Theatre’s next offering, [...]
September 11, 2009
Kierkegaard’s Eleventh Hour
Reading Kierkegaard this morning. Went to bed too late to be up comprehending Kierkegaard, but the great phrase “to will one thing” is on my mind. So I’m reading the online version of Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing, and am stopped at the 2nd chapter. Kierkegaard says remorse always comes [...]
August 21, 2009
Meaning of Life 1.5 – A Broken Maker
This one’s short and to the point. After the fall, life…goes on. The mandate is the same: Image-carriers of God, now broken, relationships all out of whack, carry on. The tasks of ruling and subduing and multiplying and bearing fruit and tilling and keeping and cultivating the ground…all of them still operative, still at the [...]
July 11, 2009
Desecrating Beauty
I came across a long article entitled “Beauty and Desecration” by Roger Scruton, in which beauty is championed, defended against what Scruton calls its desecration at the hands of modern and post-modern artists who believe that art is primarily disruptor, disturber, and provoker. He cites as evidence a Mozart opera produced in Berlin back in [...]
July 7, 2009
Questions About Possibility
Yesterday, I came across a web site called <100K Project, an awareness raising enterprise by Scott Walters dedicated to “bring(ing) the arts back home” to small and rural communities with populations under 100,000.” One of the posts I spent some time with is titled “On the Possibility of Art.” An interesting move Walters makes is [...]
September 25, 2008
Girl with a Pearl Earring
After frozen pizza that was better than you’d think, spicy chicken fingers and potatoes, and salad that someone wondered over, asking if anchovy might be in the dressing, we finally wandered downstairs to watch a film only one person besides myself had seen. “This doesn’t have much dialogue, does it?” she said, and she was [...]
September 10, 2008
My Kid Could Paint That
Jeffrey Overstreet’s article inspired me to go grab My Kid Could Paint That, a documentary by Amir Bar-Lev concerning one Marla Olmstead, a four-year-old painter whose work took the New York Art Scene by storm back in 2005. (Her painting “Mosquito Bite” is shown above.) The film begins as a celebration of this year child’s [...]
