Visual meditations
Henri Matisse: Chapelle du Rosaire, Vence, France
When he set out to create his well-known chapel in Vence, Henri Matisse declared, “I started with the secular and now in the evening of my life, I naturally end with the divine.”
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Jonathan Evens interviews Hannah Rose Thomas
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Peter S. Smith and Duke Special
I am black and white
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I am risk
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Art and Poetry
Denise Levertov & Ernst Barlach
People so tuned
can't open to symbol's power
unless convinced of its ground,
its roots in bone and blood.
We must feel the pulse in the wound to believe that 'with God all things are possible.'
Christian calendar
Year B, Proper 25
Here we see Bartimaeus, enclosed up to his neck in a dark brown and black outfit.
The mourning bands on the sleeves and the frayed edges testify to a handicapped life.
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