Oil and digital print on panel 2008 15 cm x 110 cmI am always curious about how a location can hold a memory, a meaning, full of associations and emotional pull. Someone drew me a map to this hilltop, noting that "you can swing on the ski lifts, during the summer, and...
Poems that are a delight to speak aloud and whose contents are worth pondering.
My husband and I live in a special place, a renovated, country church in Nashville, Tennessee that was built in 1912. Our home is called the Art House and it includes a recording studio and offices. Since moving in many years ago, we’ve worked to make this place a home for our family, but also a gathering place for other people—mainly artists, musicians, and songwriters who need nurture in some way.
Many upcoming events are worth marking in your calendar...Cardus Senior Fellow Jonathan Chaplin will speak about Faith in Diversity: Integrity and Solidarity in a Plural Society at the Institute for Christian Studies, next Tuesday, October 28 2008.Living at the...
I work in a community in Swaziland, Africa called Bulembu where we help those who are suffering from disease, have very little food and can’t find jobs. We try to give opportunities for people to go to work, and provide for their families; opportunities for kids to get a good education so that they can have access to jobs; opportunities to receive medical treatment for those who have diseases. But one of the most important things we do is look for ways to teach those we help, how to learn how to do many things on their own.
Art creates a space of freedom removed from life in order to reveal what is overlooked and represent possibilities. In my work I aim to create alternatives to the anesthetized "experiences" that are consumed in our economy. The experiences I create take form within...
In my paintings, I seek to explore the beauty and mystery of the landscape. In "Mystery, Creation" my intent is to express the divine beauty of creation through the use of light and color, evoking a sense of mystery to what is beneath the surface of the land.The...
Comment has a new publisher! Sort of. The Work Research Foundation has become Cardus: a new unique name for the same unique organization.The Cardus was an ancient north-south road that connected the people of Roman cities to their major public spaces. On the Cardus...
Holocaust feature films are powerful because film is story, and good stories tend to be about individuals at odds with the world around them. The personal transformation of the complex and profoundly imperfect man in Schindler’s List might very easily be our own story. We are all of us ruined palaces and glorious ruins.
We asked Comment contributors to send us very short statements of practical wisdom that they use and are willing to stand by, based on their own experience or oral traditions in their communities.
A case for thinking in public—slowly and together.
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