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Experiencing Ordinary Art
“We do not have to travel to the ends of the earth nor return many millennia in time to find peoples for whom everything that intensifies the sense of immediate living is an object of intense admiration. Bodily scarification, waving feathers, gaudy robes, shining ornaments of gold and silver, of emerald and jade, formed the […]
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Memories Of Dean …. 1956-2011
Captured along a mountain road of continual switch-backs and treacherous hairpin turns, our image shows a homemade memorial — in itself a creative still life, arranged on a slope descending steeply toward the pavement. The shrine contains rich information about its subject, Dean, alive on our planet from the year 1956 until 2011, when he […]
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Comments On An Accidental Pilgrimage
It is the simplest message in Christian teaching: God Is Love. It is also the most audacious scripture propagating endless conundrums — the least believable too — open to rational criticism and ridicule. The jalopy in our image belonged to Leonard Knight, folk-artist and evangelist. The vehicle doubled as his residence. He wrapped the dilapidated […]
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Eyes No Longer Here
“The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms.” From “The Hollow Men” by T.S. Eliot Mr. Eliot’s poetic image evoking a graveyard has stuck with me over decades — broken jaw of our lost kingdoms. […]
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Learning From Joseph Conrad
“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art must carry its justification in every line. And art itself may be defined as the single-minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect. It is an […]
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A Desert Benevolence
Here olives prosper In dry and doubtful ground. Bestowing restful tonic, A soul-refreshment On truth-thirsty travelers.