Throughout my time in Seminary I cultivated a love of creating assemblage sculptures. Assemblage is a form of sculpture where instead of cutting away at a chunk of stone, the sculpture is built up, typically using previously formed objects. My work tends to focus on ordinary objects (terracotta pots, empty wine bottles, cement, copper wire, […]
Stieg Larsson’s 2005 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a multi-layered crime/mystery novel. Interestingly enough the entire Millennium Trilogy, or series, was published in Swedish after Larsson’s death in 2004. The American version of the movie recently went to theaters, while the 2009 Swedish version is instant streaming on Netflix. The Girl with the […]
The Hunger Games is Suzanne Collins first book in The Hunger Games Trilogy and the start of her second Young Adult series. The protagonist and narrator, Katniss Everdeen, is a young woman of 16 trying to provide for her little sister and mother after her father was killed in a mining accident four years ago. […]
Empty Bowls is a grassroots organization formed for the soul purpose of fighting hunger across the world and was created by the non-profit Image Render. According to the organizations website The basic premise is simple: Potters and other craftspeople, educators and others work with the community to create handcrafted bowls. Guests are invited to a […]
The Debt, starring Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington and Tom Wilkinson, is a movie that is not easy to forget. Not only because it involves Jewish Mossad spies hunting Nazis in the 60’s around Berlin, not only because there are moments that are unbearably creepy, but because The Debt is a perfect recipe for reconciliation. And yet there is […]
Downton Abbey is an Emmy award winning Series from creator Julian Fellowes (Godsford Park). The series focuses on a British family during the short years between the sinking of the Titanic and the start of World War I. The show is about the social and political entanglements of the Crawley Family, whose patriarch is the Earl […]