Reading Beauty and Justice is like walking through an art gallery. Each paragraph has the potential to capture one’s imagination, causing one to linger before moving to the next piece. Makoto Fujimura, the artist, partners with his wife Haejin Shim Fujimura, the lawyer. This is a winsome picture of two lives and vocations joining. They…
James Paterson is an artist and “imagineer” who lives in Ontario. His award-winning wire sculptures are influenced by a childhood in the “vibrant and visually textured Kensington Market area of Toronto” and have been exhibited in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. Violet Nesdoly: What form did your early art take? James Paterson: I…
At four years of age, I decided to learn how to write. I sprawled on the living room carpet, placed a blank page over a flattened Smarties box, and traced the letters. Then I ran to the kitchen, triumphantly presenting the sheet to my mother, exclaiming, “I can write!” She observed, “You copied a Smarties…
Malik Dieleman is a photographer and multidisciplinary artist. CC spoke with Dieleman about the vision behind his first solo art exhibition, Already, Not Yet. Maaike VanderMeer: Where does the title, Already, Not Yet, come from? Malik Dieleman: As my project developed, I had several themes in mind: nostalgia, being “in between” and the tension of…
Engaging in the arts can be a deeply spiritual act – an expression of worship, reflection and even healing. Through creating, we can enter a space where faith and imagination meet, where the Spirit speaks not only through words but also through images. This fall, I joined a Christian art therapy group hosted virtually by Genesis…
Author Mitali Perkins is well known for her middle school and young adult novels, such as Bamboo People, Rickshaw Girl, and You Bring the Distant Near, as well as her children’s picture books – Home is in Between, Between My Hands and more. In Just Making, Perkins relates her childhood experiences of immigrating with her…
“I made quilts as fast as I could to keep my family warm, and as pretty as I could to keep my heart from breaking,” wrote one pioneer woman in her diary. Pioneer quilts were usually made from scraps – Pa’s britches, empty flour sacks and Meg’s outgrown coat. Many quilts told stories; you could…
I’ve slowly been stocking the fridge with homemade inks. A forestry friend tells me that the berries I picked off a hedge are privet berries – they make a stunning purple. Another friend brings me dogwood fruit from her boyfriend’s yard: we eat a few – they have almost a gritty texture – and then…
When Liz Straiton, a member of Redwood Park Church in Thunder Bay, Ontario, was asked to make reusable communion cups to replace the disposable plastic ones in use, she accepted the challenge. She glazed and fired over 500 dishwasher-safe cups over eight weeks. Each individual cup is small and lightweight, similar in size to the…
Two long-time Alberta members of the Christian Reformed Church have recently and pleasingly contributed to the fraught relationship between science and faith. Both books aim to explore the “mind of God” and God’s ongoing creational and sustaining work, though using different literary styles and techniques. Harry Cook, Professor Emeritus at Edmonton’s King’s University translated from…
My daughter’s favorite television show is not a television show. It’s a YouTube series, “animated” in Minecraft, and created by an online star named Aphmau. I have mixed feelings about her watching it, not because it’s inappropriate, but because, well, it’s YouTube. Look: I’m an English-majoring, creative-writing, British-television-loving snob. Why anyone would watch amateurs making…
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