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Cain and Abel

Cain and Abel

Gelatin silver print 1996Cain and Abel is not a piece of recent work, but it is the most requested and reproduced. In a sort of reverse engineering, the picture was taken on a whim while testing a new camera. It was only while looking at the proof sheet a few months...

In-flight refueling

McDonald’s is emblematic of libraries-turned-media-centres, and hospitals-turned-medical-centres: the human has become inhuman. And yet, like so many things in modern life, the fault, dear Brutus, lies not in McDonald’s, but in ourselves.

Week of May 31, 2009

A wunderkammer of discoveries, compiled by Comment and illuminated for our readers' edification and entertainment. We do not necessarily endorse the external content below.CALL FOR POETS: Comment Magazine invites poets to submit contributions in the form of a rondeau...

Virgin and Christ Adoring

Virgin and Christ Adoring

Bead embroidery on fabric and wood 2000Celebration and contemplation are the themes that run through all my work. I celebrate the joys of life in God's created universe and contemplate the mystery of His revelation in Jesus Christ.The Bible, symbols and iconography of...

DIY homesick blues: The music of Ben Cooper

Radical Face epitomizes for me what’s good about so much small- (or no-) label music right now: the appropriation of non-traditional instrumentation, layering, thickness, the use of technology to embolden a DIY aesthetic, the redemption of “found” sounds.

A theology of the crash

The type of economy particular to my community trundles along as it always has. I understand that for the middle- and upper-classes, the recession really bites. They are the hardest hit and their lives are undergoing significant changes. I guess lifestyles can be downsized just like corporations.