Category Archives: Christian writing

Bloguanuary 24: A Dream and a Pilgrimage

Posted on January 24, 2022 by AnnIsikArts

Ignoring the gruesome grammar (left) for it would be impossible to write about a dream I do not remember, I am today prompted to write about a dream. This is an account of a dream that sent me on a … Continue reading →

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On Collage and the Loss of Wonder

Posted on January 17, 2022 by AnnIsikArts

“When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not emerge, do not leave: they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.” … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Christian writing, Collage & Assemblage, Creativity, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Mixed Media, Monoprinting, Painting, Quotes, spirituality | Tagged Adam, Collage & Assemblage, Eco Print, Genesis, Monoprints, The Fall of Man | 2 Comments

Cecil Collins: Fools and Angels

Posted on September 26, 2019 by AnnIsikArts

“Artists can do something more: they can vanquish the lie.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Artist Review, Christian writing, Creativity, Inspiration, Romanticism | Tagged Cecil Collins, The Vision of the Fool, Visionary Art | 12 Comments

Mark Making, The Zen of Seeing, the Byzantine Monocondyle and the Seven Bridges of Königsberg

Posted on November 30, 2018 by AnnIsikArts

Warning: really long blog coming up. (I had to do a really long poetic walk this time). The quote opening my blog of 29 August was from The Zen of Seeing: Frederick Franck. Intrigued, I sent for the book. In parallel … Continue reading →

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A Titanic Love Affair, Horse Chestnut Husk Dye and Mordanting with Moses the Chemist

Posted on October 15, 2018 by AnnIsikArts

My titanic love affair has little to do with those 12 sprogs/pre-Olympian gods of Uranus, less still the ill-fated ship of that name. I’m in love with the oxalate of a mineral element, Titanium Oxalate (C4O8Ti) which is a new … Continue reading →

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New Year’s Clarification: God and the Seagulls: Subtitle: God (The Fisher King) Changes His Mind

Posted on February 6, 2017 by AnnIsikArts

“Exciting to see but soon after comes sadness the cormorant boats.” Basho 2016 is over by a whole month. I didn’t make resolutions. I’m making a New Year’s Clarification. I was walking through a park, early one morning about … Continue reading →

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Walking the Paradox – Found Unbound with the Corinthians

Posted on September 16, 2016 by AnnIsikArts

I’m following-up on my blog of 1st September – Adventuring – with an artistic adventure I’ve been having. I’m calling it Found Unbound. Found Unbound is about an artist’s book. Found halted in the process of being unbound, or found … Continue reading →

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The Artist who Drew with the Sun; the Meissner Effect and the Apostle Paul

Posted on July 27, 2016 by AnnIsikArts

The Artist who Drew with the Sun is the heading over an article in Resurgence & Ecologist magazine. The artist is Roger Ackling, who died in 2014. Excerpted: “One does not have to know how to bring meaning to one’s life: searching is to bring … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Christian writing, Creativity, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Ecology, Inspiration, Reviews, Science, Sculpture, Walking, Walking Art | Tagged Colossians, Land Art, Maglev trains, magnetic levitation, Meissner Effect, Occasional Papers, Resurgence Trust, Roger Ackling, Superconductivity, sustainable energy, Tate, the Apostle Paul, Walking Art | 6 Comments

Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith and King Hezekiah

Posted on July 14, 2016 by AnnIsikArts

I’ve written in recent blogs about the metaphors relating to the square – that have impinged on me while I’ve been tending to the blocks of squares in which I’m growing veggies at my allotment. Following on from my previous post, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Christian writing, Creativity, Inspiration, spirituality | Tagged Alison Smith, Jung, King Hezekiah, Landscaping your Life, Putting One's House in Order, Synchronicity | 9 Comments

Allotment Artefacts

Posted on October 4, 2015 by AnnIsikArts

I dug up these four ceramic fragments at the allotment this year, each at different times. They’re bits of a tile. I suspect 1960s – burnt orange was in fashion in the 60s. And psychedelic designs. I wonder what I will do … Continue reading →