http://churchasart.com/blog/2008/08/13/aperture-and-wendell-berrys-sonata-at-payne-hollow/ Thu, 17 May 2012 21:17:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://churchasart.com/blog/2008/08/13/aperture-and-wendell-berrys-sonata-at-payne-hollow/comment-page-1/#comment-112 joshua Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:21:13 +0000 http://churchasart.com/blog/2008/08/13/aperture-and-wendell-berrys-sonata-at-payne-hollow/#comment-112 ah, yes. one might say our best theologies can never be more than aesthetic experience... beautiful and truthful, but eternally temporal, sensual, short of Beauty and Truth. i've been meditating a lot lately on an art that contains no subject or object, no creator or created, and necessitates divine union with Christ. the western artist has become enamored with the works of his own hands and it binds him up in an egocentric loop: "as a painter I never was at rest. Now I look and do not paint. This is the heaven of a painter––only to look, to see without limit." thanks, troy. ah, yes. one might say our best theologies can never be more than aesthetic experience… beautiful and truthful, but eternally temporal, sensual, short of Beauty and Truth. i’ve been meditating a lot lately on an art that contains no subject or object, no creator or created, and necessitates divine union with Christ. the western artist has become enamored with the works of his own hands and it binds him up in an egocentric loop: “as a painter I never was at rest. Now I look and do not paint. This is the heaven of a painter––only to look, to see without limit.” thanks, troy.

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