Trusting religious images to raise their questions and reveal their meanings in other landscapes, cultures and worlds

My latest published piece is a Visual Meditation written for ArtWay which is based on Descent II by commission4mission artist, Christopher Clack.
Juxtapositions, such as setting the descent from the cross on the moon, are Clack’s stock-in-trade and in the meditation I explore some of the issues and themes that arise as a result of this juxtaposition before ending with the question 'What would be the impact, I wonder, were we more frequently to take religious images out of their religious context, as Clack has done, and trust them to raise their questions and reveal their meanings in other landscapes, cultures and worlds?' My Visual Meditation can be read by clicking here.
Also published today on the ArtWay site is an article I have written about the significance of the imagery of clowns in the life and work of Albert Houthuesen entitled 'The spirituality of the Artist-Clown.'
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The Police - Walking On The Moon.