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This excerpt, written by Katherine Yurica, discusses the views of Carl Jung and his vision of an artist. "The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is 'man' in a higher sense--he is 'collective man'--one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic life of mankind."

A visual essay of some of my own photography that I feel/hope conveys spiritual truth AND artistic truth. See my blog post at http://tamesequels.blogspot.com for my discussion about these two kinds of truths. All of these pieces are taken with a low resolution camera phone to try and convey that artistic beauty can be found in this world with the humblest means and mediums. This is one of my new art projects. I have always had an interest in photography, so this has been a good chance for me to experiment. I will try to post a photo on this site every day.

I like what you are doing, especially the wires photograph. I believe it ties in nicely to the sublime we talked about during Romanticism, that there is a glimpse of God in nature.

One of my favorite mormon artists has a blog!

Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

Here are some very influential creations of art within the artistic movement regarding romanticism.

Here is an article about einstein in the context of the modernist movement. It is written in response to Time magazine's suggestion that einstein kicked off artistic and moral relativism. the author disagrees with this statement. It is a good article to understand einstein in the greater context of modernism.

I know that this is a pretty indulgent post, but I was thinking about self-directed learning and it hit me that we shouldn't discount the things that are fun to read as non self-directed learning. This is one of my favorite artists' Sufjan Stevens. He's kind of like a modern day David Byrne, but he also happens to be a devout christian. I like the way he mixes religion with music in subtle forms and so I appreciated his comments on religious worship here.