Category: Culture
Italy 2023
Olympia Peninsula
Idaho 2022
Arizona 2022
Paintings to date
All paintings oil on canvas unless indicated otherwise All paintings have deep profile (no need for frame) except as indicated otherwise “low profile” means you’d want to add a frame. Florence Duomo 30 x 40 2023 Tuscany arch 2023 16 x 20 […]
Read more...Egypt
Normal Man
Here is some imagery suggested by Roberto Calasso in his book The Unnamable Present. He speaks of secularists, modern people who oppose religion in public but more importantly feel for themselves no religious orientation. The type of person is not new, Calasso says, but has always existed as a “perpetual shadow” to another type of […]
Read more...Subjective Time
I was thinking about the nature of time because I was invited to listen to and comment on a podcast about hell. That occasioned a consideration of time because it was necessary to evaluate the thesis that those who die without Christ don’t live eternally in torment; rather, their suffering is finite, and then they […]
Read more...Metaphysical Vibration
I’ve often said that modern culture is essentially materialistic, in the philosophical sense that material (physical) things are deemed to be all there is. And yet, materialists routinely invoke language of the transcendental to explain what’s going on around them, including the word “transcendent” itself. It’s confusing. It has the effect of masking the absence of […]
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