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The Artist as Rememberer (Part 1)

In an interview, Wendell Berry once remarked: “In a truly grounded, locally adapted culture, the artists would be rememberers.”[1] This statement brought up several questions for me: How important is art to our sense of memory and belonging in a…

Redeeming Bodies: God, Poetry, and Healing

Last autumn in the most unlikely of places—an academic conference in Oxford—I was reminded of the redemptive theological potential of the arts.  In the discussion following my paper on kenotic images of God in Annie Dillard’s book, Holy the Firm,…

Transposing Poetry: Ekphrasis

Transposition is very much what poetry and all literary art is about. To hear snatches from the huge unknowable symphony of experience, to catch them and transpose them to a key that resonates with our understanding, so that at some…

Symposia at Transpositions

Hi Folks!  Well, we just finished our symposium on the commercial arts, and I thought that I would take this opportunity to remind our readers that all of our symposia (the posts and the conversations they generate) are available and…

Love and Death of the Simulacra

The simulacra are presences or appearances that have lost their ground in reality. They are, as it is sometimes said, a copy of a copy. They appear to us as real, but are only illusions that cause us to forget…

Featured Artist: Matt Ballou

Matt is a painter originally from New York, but now living in Missouri where he holds a position as Assistant Teaching Professor of Painting and Drawing position at the University of Missouri in Columbia.  He received a BFA from the…