Media

Youtube Series

I have begun to post youtube videos regularly, up to once a week to discuss symbolism in the Bible, in society and in popular culture.   I am also putting these out as podcasts.  Please see my media website for more details.    The Symbolic World

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Writings

You will find here an organized list and links for my writings organized by subject, which were mostly done for the Orthodox Arts Journal.
Au bas de la page, vous trouverez aussi mes articles traduits en Français, gracieuseté de Iconophile.

The Recovery of the Arts

• The Recovery of the Arts
• The Recovery of the Arts (pt.2): From the Garden to the City
• The Recovery of The Arts (pt.3): Memory of the Heart

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Traditional Cosmology and Liturgical Art

• Most of the Time the Earth is Flat
• Where is Heaven?
• Heaven and Earth in the Icon
• Heaven is Round. Earth is Square

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The Meaning of Liturgical Art

• St-John Chrysostom on Liturgical Art
• Theophany and What Sacred Art Does
• Technical Hierarchy
• Visual Heresy – An Evangelical On The Iconography of God The Father
• Steatite Icons and Material Symbolism
• Sacred Symbol, Sacred Art
• The Robot, the Mutant and The Artist
• Sacred Space, Sacred Art and The Power of Women​

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General Symbolism in Iconography

• The Recovery of Symbolism
• The Ass and The Ox in The Nativity Icon
• The Serpents of Orthodoxy
• Understanding The Dog-Headed Icon of St-Christopher 
• Understanding The Dog-Headed Icon of St-Christopher (Part 2)
• Iconography in the Landscape
• The Cave in The Nativity Icon
• Jonah – Resurrecting The Body and Saving The City
• Nun, Jonah and the Sign of the Fish
• The Samaritan Woman, Baptism and the Hexagon

​The Dragons that Almost Exist

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The Left and Right Side in Christian Art

• Mercy on The Right. Rigor on The Left
• St-Peter on The Right. St-Paul on the Left.
• Authority on The Right. Power on The Left.
• Two images of the Church and why they should not be confused.
  

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My Work

• A Carver’s Commission
• Wooden Vessels
• Teaching Art in a Catholic School
• Designing a Syrian Orthodox Panagia
• Carving a Reliquary
• Carving New Materials
• Learning Icon Carving with Hexaemeron
• Seat of Wisdom
• Wedding Crowns  also : Wedding with Carved Crowns  
• 6 Days of Icon Carving
• A Contemporary Opus Sectile Icon
• Adapting a Painted Icon to Carving
• Transfiguration in Shadow
• Icon Carving of Christ Pulling St-Peter from the Water.
• Improving Icon Carving Through Drawing

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The Best of Traditional Liturgical Art 

• Armenian Carving
• The Mystery of Ethiopian Iconography
• Opus Sectile Icons
• Medieval Art from Catalonia
• Ethiopian Carving

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Contemporary Liturgical Artists

• The Carved Miniatures of George Bilak
• Christabel Anderson: Authenticity in Sacred Art
• Branislav Đerković : Surgical Miniature
• Contemporary Georgian Art
• Daniel Neculae: Between Panselinos and Rublev
• Icons from Shells
• Miniature Icons by Evgeny Baranov
• Russian Master Icon Carvers
• The Amber Icons of Alexander Krylov
• Interview With Russian Enamelist Evgeny Baranov
• Fr.Silouan Justiniano - Returning to Puerto Rico With Icons  Also: An Icon of St-John of Kronstadt by Fr.Silouan Justiniano
• The Carved Icons of Elena and Sergio Nikolenko
• Georgian Wonder
• Mozaicon. Vibrant Romanian Mosaics
• Georgian Master Iconographer: Amiran Goglidze
• The Bronze Icons of Alex Aleksejevas
• Rashid and Inessa Azbuhanov: Revival and Modernity in Orthodox Carving
• Hope and Fragility: An Interview With Neo Coptic Iconographer Stéphane René
• The Rich Classicism of Fr. Ilie Bobaianu
• Fr. Philippe Péneaud: Romanesque Iconography Today
• Delicate Fluidity: The Icons of Anton and Ekatarina Daineko
  

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Reviews

• What is missing from Aronofsky’s Noah (Movie review)
• Review of “Icon As Communion” by George Kordis

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Articles en Français

• Les serpents de l'Orthodoxie
• Nūn, Jonas et le Signe du Poisson
• L'âne et le bœuf dans l'icône de la Nativité
• Jonas
• Vases sacrés en bois
• Mozaicon - Vibrantes mosaïques Roumaine

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