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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
JEFF BERRYMAN 