What You’ll Find Here…
…Photography Projects
Fragmented Christ
Everyone looks at Jesus slightly differently. This is both a blessing and curse. The blessing is that each person’s experience of Jesus can enrich and enliven every other person’s faith. It is a curse in that it can also lead to dis-unity and fracturing when we define what we see too differently.
extraOrdinary
Using a child’s kaleidoscope as a visual analogy, these images take single photographs, invert them, overlay them, reflect them, creating abstractions in the midst of realism. We tend to trust too implicitly the surface depiction of a realistic photograph. This often causes us to fail to see deeper meanings that can be found in many photographs. By changing the angles and patterns of the images, a viewer is arrested in their perception, asking the question ‘what is that really?’ This leads the viewer to explore the deeper details and, potentially, a deeper meaning.
Grief
In May of 2020 my mother died. She was in Canada, my family and I were in New Zealand, and because of the Covid-19 pandemic we were not able to be with her at the end. In fact, at the time of writing (very nearly a year later) we have still not been able to return to celebrate her life and lay her to rest. We were, however, blessed to be able to spend two weeks with her in February/March of 2020, early in her time in hospital. The photographs in this project come out of my own process of grief and processing around her illness and death. There is no commentary to the images themselves. They merely speak to me of my own emotional experience.
…Writings
…Photographs
Colour
Sometimes, the point of a photograph is not its subject, but its colours the light produces.
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Simplicity
And sometimes photographs show best when they show the least.
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Rhythm and Repetition
As with words, rhythm and repetition can resonate with photographs.
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It is unusual to write a review of two books at the same time. My intent, however, is to not write complete reviews of these two works, but to write a brief review of how the lessons they contain overlap in support of the apologetic enterprise. I’m intending this to be the first of three brief papers. The second, like this, will look at two otherwise unconnected works and discuss how they overlap: a well established work by NT Wright, The New Testament and the People of God (1992), and a new release from Gary Habermas, On The Resurrection Volume 1: Evidences (2024). The third essay will examine how all four works together strengthen Christian confidence in the stories of the Resurrection as God’s transformative act in history.