Icons of Lost Words: Presence and Participation in a Modern-Day Bestiary
Once Upon a Time ‘Once upon a time, words began to vanish from the language of children’.1 So begins the fairy-tale preface to The…
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The Orthodox Icon and the Abstract Art of Constantin Brancusi and Wassily Kandinsky
To kick off our autumn series on Religion from the Outside, icon writer Aidan Hart assesses the line of influence — and natural divergences…
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Mirror of Holiness
Are not these people, who are speaking in various tongues, from Galilee? How is it that each of us hears them speaking in the language to which we were…
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The Tomb, the Throne, and the Fire: A Theological Reading of the Pentecost Icon
In traditional Christian iconography, Pentecost is associated with the image of tongues of flames, fire, or even doves, which signify the Holy Spirit in…
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Can an AI Paint an Icon?
Recently, there has been much controversy about AI-generated ‘art,’ resulting from the recent developments in Generative Neural Networks (GANs)1 and subsequently a popularization of…
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