The Fredösphere

Me an' me posse have been trading links lately; I started off with the retro-futuristic ruins of Taiwan; that led to the world's worst building (in North Korea of course) and then someone found this amazing, very slightly racy sci-fi treatment of the same.  Then, someone linked to an old favorite of mine, Jesus Applying for Membership in the UN, and thus we arrive at today's true topic....

I commend to your reading this compelling essay-ette by Tobias Wolff on the topic of the intersection of aesthetics and spirituality in the New Yorker.  (It's the essay that is in the New Yorker, not the spirituality--at least, certainly not exclusively.)  Shown here is the (extraordinary bad--how is it that little old Victorian ladies with a taste for girly Jesuses wearing false beards managed to wrest the tiller of the ship of religious iconography from the hands of people like, well, me for so many years?  Evil little monsters, that's what they are) painting of Jesus mentioned in the essay.  Hat tip to Stefan Beck at Arma Virumque, who has comments worth reading as well.

Labels: VarietiesOfReligiousArt