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Quality is the first norm for art, but its final norm is love and truth, the enriching of human life, the deepening of our vision.

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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Thomas, Hannah Rose. 2018. 'Aisha'

TEARS OF GOLD

“The invisible light that radiates from the other”
 

Jonathan Evens interviews Hannah Rose Thomas

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Art and Music

Peter S. Smith and Duke Special

I am black and white
I am color
I am risk
I am mother
I am holy
I’m disaster

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Art and Poetry

Ernst Barlach: The Reunion of Christ and Thomas, detail

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.'

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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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