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It is my great fear that most people look at this print and see a zombie. That is not my intention. He’s a leper (a victim of Hansen’s disease I think it’s called now). There is a fantastic story about the young Francis as he encounters a leper on the…
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St Francis has been consuming all of my artmaking these days. He’s taken the lion’s share for more than the past year. I’m going to try to set down here some of what it is that I’m thinking about as I make these images. As I have written…
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I’ve been working hard, very hard, on a new triptych. It’s made of three linocuts (of course) and it is about the Psalms. There are a lot of Psalms, so I decided the wisest way of going about choosing which ones to do was to ask my wife what she…
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WHY ST. LUKE'S ATTIC?
St. Luke’s Attic is named after, of course, Saint Luke. There are a couple of reasons that he is the patron saint of artists. The first is that his gospel goes a long way in painting a picture of Jesus and the people who surround him. The other is that he actually painted pictures of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. That sounds ...
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