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The Blasphemy of the Cliché

Making cows out of crosses.

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Wandering Stars

Get yourself back into orbit

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Always Beautiful

The Beautiful in its own time.

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Art and Theology

I do not worship matter, but the Creator of matter, who for my sake became material and deigned to dwell in matter, who through matter effected my salvation… —St. John of Damascus And the Word became flesh, and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only,…

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2 Year Anniversary

Today Megan and celebrated our 2 year wedding anniversary, and I have to say that it has been the best two years of my life. Even though it’s been full of lots of challenges and struggles that we could never have seen coming, I wouldn’t change it for anything and would have made the same…

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Toward the Beautiful

I wrote a guest article for CreationSwap entitled Toward the Beautiful on the metaphysical underpinnings of beauty and how that relates to the role of an artist in the work of creating art. Check it out here.

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Merry Christmas

Megan and I had a craft night a few days ago, and decided to make up some handmade Christmas cards. I decided to riff off another card I had tried my hand at, but this time with a more tangible aspect. It was fun and I think turned out quite well.

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Gone But Not Forgotten

Acrylic on canvas with some magazine and book cutouts. The quotes were dug out randomly from a book I’ve never read I found lying on a shelf in our apartment, and I thought they captured a sort of tension between the carefree and the task of grappling with some of the most essential aspects of…

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Credulous

I created this piece after thinking about the seeming impossibility of flight. Yes, I realize there is a lot of physics involved which allows this to be a possibility. Nevertheless, it’s still a little disconcerting to think that I might be riding in a 500 ton aluminum cage that is hurtling through the air at…

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