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Essays that are available for reading will be linked.

 

What's the Use? A Faith-Motivated Artist Re-Considers Re-Enchantment (12 pages)

Following The Difficult Path: Stylistic Duplication or Earnest Search?

Statement for The Omen: Wars and Rumors of Wars series (4 pages with images)

Contemplation and Painting the Votive Object (3 pages)

2005 Indiana University MFA Thesis Statement (14 pages)

Second Horizon: Changes in the Work of Odd Nerdrum (14 pages)

A Question of Faith (12 pages)

The Christian Nude: A Short Apologetic (17 pages)

Bricks: Substance and Metaphor (9 pages)

Art and Submission (3 pages)

Ananda Coomaraswamy's Misconception of Individuality (6 pages)

The Voice of the Archetype (4 pages)

 

 

 

 

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