Travel Notes: On Writing, Surprise and the Self Through Time
Reading Plato’s Phaedrus, we learn that Socrates disapproved of writing. The funny thing is that Plato, who was his student, felt it appropriate to…
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Existentialist Lana Del Rey
What you doin’ with your life? Do you think about it? Do you contemplate where we came from?’ So sings Lana Del Rey in…
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The Taste of Things is a Phenomenological Feast
Wine is the intellectual side of a meal. Meat and vegetables are the material side.’ —Dodin Bouffant, The Taste of Things If one is desiring…
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Art and Mind Games
On Sunday, 20 June, the Guardian posted an article titled, ‘Why Modern Art is all in the Mind,‘ reviewing a forthcoming book titled, ‘How…
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The Most Important Production of Art?
If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for,…
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Buren’s Columns
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,…
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The Calling of Christian Artistry: A Quick Look at Howard Finster
When I lived in Atlanta, I would keep a membership to the High Museum of Art, that way if was ever bored in the…
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Objectivity, Subjectivity, Worldview, and Art
Imagine a large, circular room with several tiers of chairs along its inner walls. In the centre of the room is a large globe…
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Shouting over the Thunderstorms
‘There is another danger…that of talking baby language. To see the way some of our best church and cathedral builders decorate their work with…
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