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I got the awesome opportunity to sit down with an old friend of mine, Alex Clark, to speak on his podcast Generation Vatican 2, where he “like to address issues we face (in our modern world) in light of the (Second Vatican) council documents and just see what they say…”
We spoke for a good long while about art and it turned into a pretty cool conversation.
In this video we cover:
The way we look at art impacts what we see (CS Lewis quote and link to ugliest building)
“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are” -C.S. Lewis
I talk a good deal about literary lenses in the essay linked above where you can read more about them by following the link.
How beauty manifests itself in various ways, similar to how truth and goodness do so
This is the big essay I am going to be releasing soon. It’s been dominating a lot of my thinking and is pretty central to a lot of ideas I have about the intersection of where my personal faith meets a world that doesn’t always share the Catholic perspective.
Beauty: is it objective or subjective? Can it possibly be both. Where meaning is created at the intersection of artist and receiver.
This podcast was a great way to begin thinking about why different people see different things; and why different people find different things beautiful.
Artistic hot takes
Surprise, surprise: I have some controversial takes.
Whether or not the philosophical underpinnings of art matter.
It’s a good question, and not easy to answer. We begin the conversation.
My own journey as a professional artist.
It’s been a crazy year.
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Cinema as art (which covers a lot of ideas I’m still writing about and will release soon)
The end of this episode could almost serve as a table of contents for upcoming essays I’ll be releasing. Check it out if you want to know what’s down the pipeline.
This video covers a lot of ground, but as I reviewed it for the purpose of summarizing it here, I realized how in it I talk about all of the things I am currently thinking and writing about. So much of this podcast covers essays I just wrote or are in the process of writing and will be releasing soon.
Stay tuned for those to be released soon!