Each year more and more planets are discovered orbiting other stars in our galaxy. In this piece a hypothetical ringed gas giant planet is depicted from one of its orbiting moons. The moon has a thin atmosphere created by erupting geysers on its surface and the Milky...
Collograph print 2006"Struggle" is meant to get at the heart of what is common to all of us without specifics. Paul wrote in Romans that he wanted to pursue the right things yet at times found himself actually doing the wrong things—doing what he did not want to do....
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“The 21st century belongs to China”?
This will turn out to be another of history’s great failed assumptions unless radical changes are made to that nation’s profound structural and demographic challenges.
I am forever interested in how line, texture, colour and even pattern can be inherently symbolic. Currently, I am attempting to visually illustrate emotions by linking these perceptions of colour, line, texture and pattern to different states of being. Nostalgia...
Oil on canvas 70" x 52" 2007These cavernous structures were built for crowds of people and throngs of religious activity, but now hold only shadows of those presences. In the three years I spent living and working in Italy, I encountered these medieval places as...
As an editorial staff, we share in the excitement here at Cardus over the appearance of a sister publication to Comment, Cardus Policy in Public, affectionately known as 'see-pip.' Congratulations to publisher Ray Pennings and editor Russ Kuykendall on a...
Three days before Barack Obama became the first African-American to be elected as U.S. President, I was doing more than watching the news from sidelines and judging politics from a distance. That night, even as one of the artists sang his songs and the puppet show began (yes, there was a puppet show!), the twenty-or-so people in the room were transfixed, at least for a moment, transported to perhaps a more humane sense of polity. I thought I saw that transport in their eyes.
Acrylic wash, watersoluble wax pastels, charcoal, conte on paper April 2008Its branches are gnarled and twisted and they hang heavy on the trunk. Yet the trees' thin shoots always reach straight up to the sky in hopeful expectation.That is like me and you. The tree...
This picture represents a special series I have done on children. Children are fascinating subjects to observe because their behavior resembles something in between adult people and nature’s wildlife. They are at once unpredictable and instinctual, yet also human...
