This is post 3 of 6 in the series “Degraded Iconicity” Mysteriological Matter Let us now digress for a moment to consider some aspects of the icon as symbol and mysteriological object, for these will further elucidate the materiality of the icon and how it bears on mechanical reproductions. St. Theodore reminds us that, […]
Some of you might be interested in reading a short article I wrote for the New Liturgical Movement. I teach art once a week in a small Traditionalist Catholic school. It has been a great joy to teach in a context so friendly to liturgical art. On my first day, as I was explaining what […]
This is post 3 of 3 in the series “The Recovery of The Arts” This is part 3 of a series: Part 1, Part 2 In my last article in this series, I addressed human activity and the arts as examples of what the Church Fathers call “the garments of skins”, a supplement to our […]
We often hear it said that traditional Orthodox liturgical arts are reviving. But how far advanced is this revival, how mature is it, and what in fact are we reviving? In this article I would like to stimulate discussion by briefly considering three related subjects: indigenous iconography, maturity, and features of a healthy climate that […]
The Holy Ascension choros, which was completed Pascha 2012, has been a project eight years in the making. In 2004, my wife and I were on our way to Charleston, SC for my first job out of architecture school – to design Holy Ascension Orthodox church. On our way, we stopped in New York […]
This is post 1 of 12 in the series “An Icon of the Kingdom of God” The liturgical art of the Orthodox Church offers the world nothing less than a vision of the Kingdom of God. There can be no higher calling for art than this. Liturgical art is the combined effort of apostles and […]
This is post 1 of 3 in the series “The Recovery of The Arts” (This post is the first of a series of three. Part 2. Part 3) We would like to welcome you to the Orthodox Arts Journal. We hope that this space will be a tribute to a skill and a form […]