The Art of Dom Robert in Four Tapestries | Gazette Drouot
If a piece of work, a fragment of consciousness, or an element of nature is somehow allowing us to access something bigger, that is its spiritual component made manifest. It awards us a glimpse of the unseen.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
For the Benedictines, gardening was an equaliser and nobody within the monastery was too grand or too learned to work in the garden for part of the day. This was a culture of care and reverence in which the gardener’s tools were to be treated with the same level of respect as the vessels of the altar. It was a way of life in which the body, mind
... See moreSue Stuart-Smith • The Well Gardened Mind
Would a return to art’s ancient, primal function of elucidating religion signal its death? Or is our culture beginning to see the wisdom of a narrative that includes reconciliation, restoration and redemption?
Karen Covell • Create: Transforming Stories of Art, Life & Faith: 21 Essays by Leading Artists
1999
Diary: San Giovanni Rotondo
Tobias Jones goes in search of Padre Pio
‘By the reception desk there’s a cabinet of Padre Pio mementos – letter-racks, mirrors, diaries, plates, each one bearing his by now familiar image: a high forehead, grey beard and bushy eyebrows, deep-set eyes above a slightly bulbous nose. The set of his mouth makes him... See more
Diary: San Giovanni Rotondo
Tobias Jones goes in search of Padre Pio
‘By the reception desk there’s a cabinet of Padre Pio mementos – letter-racks, mirrors, diaries, plates, each one bearing his by now familiar image: a high forehead, grey beard and bushy eyebrows, deep-set eyes above a slightly bulbous nose. The set of his mouth makes him... See more