Creation - Horizongate

9 Jul 2021

Art In the Noosphere

by markart | posted in: ebooks, Film Development, Inspirational, Making Art, Recommended Books, The Artist's Life, Visual Arts | 0

Usually, after completing an arduous work of art, I experience an emptiness. This is often a period of wandering grappling with questions like “What else can I say? What else can I try? Why write and make art? Who cares?” — remnant thoughts from humanity’s long history of self-focus. Lately I’ve been asking, “Why am I watching tutorials and learning new technology?”

9 Jun 2021

Difference: The Field of Creation

by markart | posted in: Actions, Inspirational, Making Art, The Artist's Life | 0

When we look at a painting on the wall, or a sculpture in a park, we are looking at a physical manifestation of the artist. In a sense the artist is present because they deposited some of themselves into the … Continued

6 Jan 2021

Getting Wealth

by markart | posted in: Actions, Faith, Inspirational, The Artist's Life | 2

. . . even if race had not been invented as a way of eliminating competition, our view would still be that the emphasis on devoting one’s life to material gain is an incomplete view of humanity.

24 Feb 2020

Pain, the Cosmic Work

by markart | posted in: Faith, Inspirational, Making Art, The Artist's Life | 2

At this writing I have been living with the pain of a gout attack for about a week. As all who live with pain will say, “You don’t know what I feel unless you’ve been there.” Of course we all … Continued

13 Oct 2019

The Particle and The Whole

by markart | posted in: Inspirational, Nature, Poetic, Science, Visual Arts | 0

It seems with our current capacities to observe the vast universe as well as impossibly tiny particles, that people have never before been so aware of our ambiguous status in reality. To the vast universe we are impossibly tiny. To … Continued

27 May 2019

God In the Limits

by markart | posted in: Arts & Theology, Inspirational, Nature, Science | 2

Breaking out of our limits has been a primary passion of humanity since prehistory. Artists appreciate limits for the liberating revelations they give. Before the Big Bang there was a yearning to be known and to fellowship. The Yearning manifested … Continued

25 Apr 2019

Sending Spiritual Power

by markart | posted in: Faith, Inspirational, Recommended Books, The Artist's Life | 0

Humans have the extraordinary capacity of knowing more than we can manage and imagining even more beyond that. Many empathize with needs that are beyond their ability to fulfill.

25 Mar 2019

The Thread Makes a Blanket

by markart | posted in: Faith, Inspirational, The Artist's Life | 0

One thing most of us try not to think about is how small we
are. And the more we avoid the thought the more we feel big and significant.
Occasionally we visit a big place like …

26 Jun 2018

Your Point of Pressure

by markart | posted in: Arts & Theology, Inspirational, The Artist's Life | 2

A friend and I were standing outside at night in the summer, mountain air. The stars were gloriously spread across the clear sky and my friend asked, “What is the first thing you think of when you look up there?” … Continued

6 Dec 2017

Advent: What We Shall Be

by markart | posted in: Inspirational, Poetic, Visual Arts | 0

Many call this season Advent. It’s about something happening and yet not completely here; knowing something good which has been promised will come. We know things are not completely as they should be, but we can imagine something better. At … Continued