art as communication – John Allcock

Images and words

09/01/202502/09/2021 by John

Currently I’m reading Rowan Williams’ intriguing The Edge of Words. It is very hard work, partly because he writes in such a dense fashion, but also because a good deal of the material he discusses is drawn from disciplines with which I’m not familiar.* It is a very ambitious piece, in which he draws upon … Read more

A sense of priorities: putting the artistic cart before the horse

09/01/202506/06/2018 by John

This week has been one of incredible frustration …. until today. My computer has been playing up in several ways, and I have not been able to get a specialist to look at it before not Wednesday. The most annoying thing has been that, having set aside this week to update and overhaul thoroughly this … Read more