A blog about solitary eremitical life as a diocesan hermit professed under canon 603.

Pietro Annigoni: Immaculate Heart of Mary — Art+Christianity

'Vanitas I' (1938) by Georges Braque

Stabat mater dolorosa “The sorrowful mother stood” At the Cross her station keeping, stood the mournful Mother weeping, close to Jesus to the last. Through her heart, His sorrow sharing…

Earth, air, water and fire were, according to Platonic philosophy, the four basic elements of which everything in the universe is composed. Plato assigned to each of those, on a rather intuitive ba…

"East to West" - Alison Armstrong. Another image I own that Heather doesn't want in the house. I have drawn a lot of strength for the journey from this image, and have used it to meditate on faith, the doctrine of God, and the perplexing mystery of "the will of God."

"Mary" - Alison Armstrong. One of my favorite Utah artists. Heather will not allow me to hang this in the house, but I think it is a great image of the Annunciation.

"Rachel" - Alison Armstrong.

Dali's paintings make a great intro to surrealism and modern art. Look at this one. If not for the cubes, Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) would look, at first glance, like an old master's piece. Surrealism is the rendering of dreams in literature,...

It’s called Scène du massacre des Innocents (“Scene of the massacre of the Innocents”), and it was painted by the largely overlooked Parisian painter,

Matthew Marks Gallery 523 West 24 Street, New York October 21 to November 2, 2002 In the large video projection “Pietà,” facing the desk at Matthew Marks Gallery, the artist Sam Taylor Wood labors to support the draped body of Robert Downey Jr. Why him, one might ask, and for that matter, why her? Why...

"Joy Cometh in the Morning" - Alison Armstrong. I see this as a Morning Prayer image...