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Sarx (σαρξ) is the Greek word for "flesh". This is the blog of a Southern Man (sojourning in Buffalo, NY) attempting to follow God in the way of Jesus.

NB: I'm currently on a "Blogging Sabbatical" to celebrate my 15th Year of online Journaling. While "Daily Tweets", the occasional review of a book, movie or eatery and Photo Blogging all continue, the daily posts have stopped until January 2011. All comments are currently in moderation.

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Disclaimer

I who have written this story, or rather this fable, give no credence to the various incidents related in it. For some things in it are the deceptions of demons, other poetic figments; some are probable, others improbable; while still others are intended for the delectation of foolish men. (Closing lines of the Táin Bó Cúalnge)

Three Hares Project

RINITARIAN Rabbits: who knew? The Three Hares Project is researching and documenting an ancient symbol of three hares or rabbits running in a circle and joined by their ears which form a triangle at the centre of the design. The symbol is a puzzle for each creature appears to have two ears yet, between them, [...]

Art & Culture

HE FOLLOWING Paragraph is copied from Is Reconstructionist Judaism For You?, written by the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation. How does it speak to Christians who seek to find a way to fellowship despite our doctrinal differences (big and small)? “For Reconstructionists, Judaism is more than Jewish religion; Judaism is the entire cultural legacy of the Jewish [...]

Electroluminescent

ROM QUINTIN Over at Progressive Imposition, a video of a Electroluminescent at the New Habours music series in Hamilton, Ontario. It was performed in May at Christ’s Church Cathedral, the Cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Niagara and was part of the monthly Art Crawl. Speaking of which: Art Crawl is THIS FRIDAY! Come to [...]

Local Paper in Violation

RTVOICE is the local “indie” rag. It’s exactly like every other local indie rag in every other city: you know, earnest stories, sex ads and “Real Astrology.” Where ArtVoice really excels, however – as Nate makes clear here – is in theft of other people’s artwork. Ironic given the paper’s name, no? Maybe we should [...]

Now, that’s an icon!

ORMALLY, Yer Host is bothered by the rather spooky and romantic style of late 19th Century Russian Icons. I have no theological issue, as do some: I just don’t like ‘em. The Shrine of the Holy Whapping introduces us to the work of the Russian artist and iconographer, Viktor Vasnetsov. His style is somewhere between [...]

Liberation

Normally I find visual art to be mute. Pictures are nice and all but that’s about it. I’m a word guy. Yes, I can be visually stimulated – I am male, after all – but usually I want words. Generally the sort of art that speaks to me has words woven in. Today, at the [...]

Artistic Nature

ATURALISMO Points us towards the online catalogue of Andy Goldsworthy work of swirling colours and arching stones. Very beautiful!

Marginalia – better than Butter!

OT MEDIEVAL takes us on a tour of Text on the Margins and once again reminding us Pretty deep for a bunch of illiterate clods waiting on the printing press to give them their humanity, eh?

Timeism & Art

INDA DRIVES THAT whole point home, eh? (Thanks to the The LION & the CARDINAL): For more than five hundred years, the middle ages have been slandered as dark, stupid and barbaric. Art historians disdained mediaeval artists for not developing linear perspective. But there is a good reason why they did not develop linear perspective; [...]

Brooding Over the Waters

Brooding Over the Waters Originally uploaded by w.wabbit. ow, it’s done. Cardboard, Ink, Tape and Detritus. Aprox .6 x .91 meters