Group: Julia Liu, Ann Rayburn, Wren McMillan Painting by Wren This untitled painting strives to visually represent a gruesome battle between the Virtues and the Vices in Prudentius’s Psychomachia. This battle, fought for the control of the human soul, is fraught with blood, gore, and the desecration of the body, although most of the blood loss rests on the side of the Vices. When producing this painting, I seeked not…
By Faryn Thomas, Jennifer Morse, Joseph Marques, and Robert Carhuayo God’s divine goodness and beauty are often mentioned in the same breath. But there are other things that are somewhat surprisingly portrayed as beautiful, for example, Sodom. “The people’s settlements there were beautiful — the men without honor, hateful to their creator” (137) The Sodomites are obviously without any sort of goodness or grace, and…
Tapestry of mind – Her intricate labored cloth Hand-made, tattered now Consolation prize? To find pleasure in forced pain; Poetic satin A heavy garment – Philosophy’s divided For want or for need? Words for what have none Poetry, Philosophy Together always Like golden pothos Propagated, learns to grow So must intellect. Image Source
