I remember the primal anguish that is born out of the belief that God is the source of both love and pain. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve observed that the feeling toward the universe it engendered is very similar to that of a hostage, a victim of abuse, a prisoner. Instead of creating a subjectivity of love in freedom, of caritas and kindness, and peace, it seemed to create an obsessive and paradoxical longing and fear that felt so meaningful…
I would like to see someone do some contemporary intellectual work on how indirect communication – communication by signals and pointers and gestures rather than direct statement – produces the best art. The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. ~ Oscar Wilde Communication whose style and content is dictated by constraints imposed by the rules of a scene is more creative, even more joyful, even if the realities of the life that produces the thought is…
Beautiful metamorphosis videos! Take a look. Women in Art [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs[/youtube] (Thanks Jacque) Women in Film [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEc4YWICeXk[/youtube]
Happy Easter and Mystical Bunny with Eggs Day! Catchin’ up with a few friend-blogs for a semi-random roundup… Richard Shining Thunder has a new radio show in Cincinnati called High Spirits. Listen in at 1530AM WCKY, Cincinnati or online Sat 8-9 PM. I’ll personally vouch for him. He’s one of the good guys. Call in from 8-9 PM EST with spiritual questions and concerns – 877-345-3779. Grateful Bear posts on a Pentacostal scholar who argues for the idea of the…
Joseph Nechvatal, my friend and intellectual compadre in viral realms, has his latest exhibition in Ohio. “Contaminations†has been extended to run through June 25th at the Butler Institute of American Art’s Beecher Center. The show includes a selection of computer-robotic assisted paintings starting in the mid-1980’s and concludes with a recent electronic viral installation. Go see! Joseph Nechvatal: Contaminations Or if you happen to be in Youngstown, Ohio: The Beecher Center for Technology in the Arts Butler Institute of…
A major find in Western Cypress, in an already-looted tomb near the village of Kouklia, in the coastal Paphos area. The area contained several ancient cemeteries that belonged to the town of Palaepaphos, site of a temple to Aphrodite (goddess of beauty and love, believed to have risen from the waves of the nearby sea). The sarcophagus is 2500 years old, and its ornate illustrations are painted in red, black, and blue on a white background. Experts believe that some…