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Annunciation

Jan 2, 2009

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Annunciation

Oil, acrylic and gold leaf on panel 10" x 5" x 2" 2005These two paintings depict an intersection of time and eternity in the moment of decision offered to Mary by the archangel Gabriel. The bottom panel describes the story within human history, while the upper panel...

Jan 2, 2009

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Q&A with Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin, “arts theorist”

Contrary to popular opinion, appearances do not generally deceive. Instead, they are an indispensable feature of the way things are and serve as our first contact with the world. The world reveals itself first through the way it can be sensed and felt, by means of our eyes or ears or by touch or taste. Art helps us see, sense and feel the world in novel ways by revealing new angles and fresh perspectives.

Jan 2, 2009

Week of December 28, 2008

Comment's favourite student conference is just around the corner. Jubilee 2009 in Pittsburgh, Penn. will feature Andy Crouch (Culture Making), Jessica Jackley Flannery (Kiva), Leroy Barber (Mission Year), Gabe Lyons (Fermi Project), David Kinnaman (Barna Research),...

For the Time Being

Dec 26, 2008

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For the Time Being

Mixed Media Collage on Paper 50 1/4"x 38 3/4" 2008I make my collages by attaching layer upon layer of materials such as painted paper, foil, glitter, painted sticks, wire, string, leather, small plastic toys and other found objects on heavy paper, much in the way a...

Dec 26, 2008

Week of December 21, 2008

"Christmas is, if false, of no importance. If true, it is of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important." So writes Cardus Senior Fellow Peter Menzies, in his Christmas op-ed "Christmas Gives Peace a Chance. . . . And while you have time...

That Thin Eternal Line

Dec 19, 2008

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That Thin Eternal Line

I have been working on the concept of time and its varied natures, specifically its relentlessness. Nothing stops time, and even though time offers us our only vehicle by which we can exist as human beings, it is also terribly inconvenient and often hostile to our...