Matt Kish didn’t go to art school. He doesn’t subscribe to an artistic school or follow in anyone’s footsteps. But his website, “One Drawing for Every Page of Moby-Dick,” is a joy to explore, featuring illustrations based on Melville’s masterpiece that are at once witty and sober, exuberant and subtle.
Creation accompanies destruction. As something old dies, something new is born.
Eden is long gone and we have wept for far too long. It’s time to grow up.
The via negativa guards against the temptation to make God into our own image or to control other people.
Conversations with God, ingressions of grace, refractions of eternity.
Every time we pray, we improve the human condition more than any technology ever has or ever can.
She sits on a stool, opposite a man who appears to be her director. A table lies between them, providing a sense of distance and yet, something else, perhaps a sense of keen connection across that distance. She looks at him with narrow eyes, eyes narrowed by the intensity of the thought behind them, a sharp kind of receptivity in her manner.
I am bad. Actually bad. There are days when nothing gives me more pleasure than being bad. I want to do evil: it makes me feel good.