![]() ![]() ![]() May we all look past the time the train that came through the fireplace and breathe our prayers of gratitude and hope. Now we can shift our gaze to the measured, centered work ahead. We can keep our feet on the ground of our faith as the world spins on its true, scientific axis and on untrue, man-made lies and dysfunction. We can face the unprecedented nature of the world within the surrounding love of God. Why not have a train come through a fireplace into a perfectly appointed room based on the careful decisions of aesthetics and privilege? “Why not” could name our shrug to this year of the unexpected and debilitating.Īnd into this scene we also carry our belief in God’s constant presence and care. ![]() It seems like a descriptive poster for 2020. The clarity of the image is contrasted by the puzzling composition. This beautifully executed work is like an optical illusion for the mind and heart. This work could be a reference to the derailment in Paris in 1895 when a train came through the exterior wall of the Gare Montparnasse Terminus and onto the street below though that connection is not referenced. It is part of the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. ![]() irreal (re)views.Time Transfixed was painted by Rene Magritte, a Surrealist from Belgium, in 1938. "This could be a pipe: Foucault, irrealism and Ceci n'est pas une pipe". René Magritte considers language and perception, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Magritte's The Treachery of Images ( Ceci n’est pas une pipe), Smarthistory Michel Foucault: This Is Not a Pipe, University of California Press, 2008. René Magritte: Beyond Painting, Manchester University Press, 2009. Esploratori di parole, in La parola nell'arte (in Italian). "Review of "Languages within language: An evolutive approach" by Ivan Fonagy".
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