Just as an experiment in putting words out into the universe, during June I blogged every day. That's 30 straight days, at least 400 words, most often more like 800. That's between 12,000 and 24,000 words, the equivalent of a small (very small) book. June was remembering how different we all are, the war that …
How Art Serves
Yesterday, I asked about the service art provides, wondering how to articulate it so that it was somewhat analogous to the practicality of giving drink and food and shelter. My own reflection begins, as always, with another question. What sustains human life? If I mean physical life only, then the answer is food and water, …
What is the Service Art Provides?
In what sense is art-making service? If you give a person a drink of water, when they ingest it, there are immediate, real-world results. If you offer a hungry person bread, when they eat it, their bodies replenish and become better able to negotiate their day's tasks and responsibilities. If you offer a coat to …
An Artist’s Prayer
Dear God, You make, I make. You make me to make. What am I to make today? What are You making today, and what is the plan for how our making? In every small corner of every large nation, human beings are setting out to take disparate materials and fashion them into a piece …
The Crisis of Knowing How We Know: Postscript
There's knowledge, and there's faith. A final salvo in my rumination about epistemology, or the study of knowledge, and knowing how we know. Those things that require faith cannot, by definition, be proven to be true in the sense that epistemology demands if a thing is to be counted as "knowledge." Faith, by definition, is …
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