Clean the Lens: A New Way of Understanding Purity of Heart

How spiritual wisdom can help us clear judgment, old hurts, and assumptions—and see life freshly I woke up in love this morning. As long as I can remember, I’ve been a lover of “ideas.” My favorites to contemplate and write about are the virtues—all of them. This morning, it seemed like I’d spent nearly two […]

The Aesthetic Dimensions in Art and Society

Chapter 9: Geometry Artistically, form and geometry are interconnected but distinct creative dimensions with unique expressive roles. The previous chapter on “form” was about creating a three-dimensional sensibility on a  two-dimensional substrate, usually an electronic screen or paper; the object was to create the sensibility of depth. “Geometry” in the context of creative expression, deals […]

High Key

An art style that sheds light on the value of choice In a dream, I walked around an art gallery where all the large black and white photographs were made in “high key”—white subjects on white backgrounds with some grey values but no blacks. Attempting to achieve this with film was challenging because it required […]