Author: Jonny N
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The value of 'Consider'
Mako Fujimura as written a compelling reasoning for engaging in the arts. I particularly liked this bit: If we proclaim the gospel without “considering the lilies,” our preaching and teaching will have an activist’s urgency and edge, but it will be filled with fear. We will have the right information, but we’ll be devoid of…
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Do you not know that we are planning a wedding feast?
This is wonderful, the (brilliant) painter Makoto Fujimura writes an open letter to north-american-churches (although I think that this also has resonances for all churches in the western world). Makoto writes about the how and why art and artists got pushed to the margins and in many cases outside the church. Of course there are…
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In the beginning
Canvas print and related video piece. A visual meditation on the first words in St John’s account of the incarnation.
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The Wasp
The wasp on my window, Knowing the sky is there, Though seen, not experienced. Small sharp stabs of flight. He could settle for this, Call this reality, climbing Up and down the pane, A two dimensional life. Near the top, a two inch bar Of PVC between him And the great wide open spaces of…
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What do you want?
If I asked you: “what do you want?” – how would you answer? How would I answer? To get to know someone we will assume we need to know various things , “what do you know?”, “what do you believe?”, “what’s your job?”. We do this to investigate and evaluate people, socially, religiously and morally.…
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Mother & Child / All I have is yours
This piece is part of digital works exploring generative drawing. Related sketches were also produced. The works explore the interconnectedness of all things, in relation to matter, the reuse of matter and the passing on of genetic data. This is a digital print on canvas.
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Self Portrait / All I have is yours
This piece is part of digital works exploring generative drawing. Related sketches were also produced. The works explore the interconnectedness of all things, in relation to matter, the reuse of matter and the passing on of genetic data.
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Just like Clint
I wrote this poem as I reflected on Clint Eastwood’s excellent film ‘Grand Torino’. To those of you who’ve seen it this will hopefully make a lot of sense, to those of you who haven’t, I hope its poetic enough to meaningful in its own right. Just Like Clint (after Grand Torino) I have no classic…
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Only those
Only those who walk the paths know more than maps; Only those who enjoy the Presence can truly talk of God. (David Adam, Walking the Edges)