Jim Watkins, Author at Transpositions

Jim Watkins

Jim Watkins is the assistant editor and a regular contributor at Transpositions. Originally, Jim is from southern California and southeastern Texas, but sometimes he feels most at home in the landscape and coffee shops of the Pacific Northwest. He met his wife Emily at Wheaton College in Illinois, where he studied Studio Art (concentration in painting). For his PhD research, he is examining the relationship between divine and human creativity from the perspective of divine kenosis.

Church, Creativity, Theology5 July, 2010

Playing the Kingdom of God

By Jim Watkins

Last week, I wrote a post on Buren’s Columns, and I said that this installation of striped pillars in the courtyard of the Palais-Royal…

Artists, Featured Artist, Painters4 July, 2010

Featured Artist: Bruce Herman

By Jim Watkins

Bruce Herman (b. 1953) is Lothlórien Distinguished Chair in the Fine Arts at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. Herman lectures widely and has had…

Artists, Criticism and Philosophy, Place and Community Art, Sculpture28 June, 2010

Buren’s Columns

By Jim Watkins

In 1986 Daniel Buren created Les Deux Plateaux (commonly referred to as ‘Buren’s Columns’) in the courtyard of the Palais-Royal in Paris. The work,…

Artists, Painting, Theology21 June, 2010

Lucian Freud: More Than Enough

By Jim Watkins

Lucian Freud is surely one of the great contemporary painters. At 88 years old, the Pompidou Centre in Paris is currently hosting its second retrospective…

Film, Theology14 June, 2010

The Good, The Bad, and The Babel

By Jim Watkins

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or…