Author Archives: Cummings Richard

Plancks Mechanical Gut:

How the Work of Visual Artist Linnéa Gabriella Spransy Can Get Even a Quantum Physicist Juiced about Art.

Quanta, and theories, and quarks; Oh My!

These words might be the emphatic exclamations of an excited quantum physicist; they are not, however, the first words that one would necessarily use to describe the beauty of Linnéa Spransy’s work.

A Visual Apologetic

Can God reveal himself through visual art?

This question often elicits conflicting emotions. Many Christians who are artists would intuitively answer the question with an unequivocal, “yes,” but defending this answer to those who are ambivalent or even hostile to visual explorations of God can be unnerving.

Why Create Anyway?

It is a simple question, but at any given time all creative persons have struggled with this basic query: Why do I do what I do?

Society might say that what we do as writers, dancers, musicians, and visual artists is frivolous and nonessential. But on a primal, intrinsic level we shapers of the world know that this is not the case.

The Beauty of God Revealed: The Paintings of Nick Blosser

Refracted Beauty in the Art of Makoto Fujimura

Beauty; 1. a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight  2. a combination of qualities that pleases the intellect or moral sense.

Beauty is such a misunderstood concept, and I will not deny a certain subjectivity in its determination. The above Oxford English Dictionary definition points out distinct facets of beauty–namely, the beauty that appeals to our visual senses and the beauty that appeals to our mind or our hearts.