Contents

WHAT I’M READING

Holy Terror

Into the Black Pot

Look Closely

Not My Monkeys

On Photography by Susan Sontag

Review of Bruegel or The Workshop of Dreams by Claude-Henri Rocquet

Review “Journeys in Dreams and Imagination”

Spreading the Word – A Review of “A History of Illuminated Manuscripts” by Christopher de Hamel

Stories for a Stormy Night

WHAT I AM LOOKING AT

A Near Failure of Eternity

A Special Place in the Air

Beside the Sea by Edgar Degas

Birthing the Future

The Birth of Venus – Victorian Bowl

Brontosaurus by Mark Dion

Cabinet of Marine Debris by Mark Dion

Colima Culture Mask

Disempowering the Devil

Domestic Abyss

Flash in the Pan

It's All Over Your Face

Jaws of Death – The Kuntz Axe

Lamentation at the Cloisters

Lion Font at the Cloisters

Little Cubes

Mark Dion: An Archaeology of Disorder

Mark Dion's The Phantom Museum

Memory Box by Mark Dion

Penitent - Tim Hawkinson

Playing God

Pray Me to Heaven

Secrets of the Tome

Unnatural Order

Vincent and the Starry Night

Warrior Against the Invisible

Whispering Across the Void – Giovanni d’Ambrogio’s Annuciation

WORDS ABOUT MY WORK

Along the Nerve

Beaver Kill Ravine Botany

The House Falls Into Meadow From the Meadow Rises a Forest

Ghost Box

Into the Magic Space (Book)

Into the Magic Space (Photographic Series)

The Big Show

Minnie’s Message

Penn Design Alumni Exhibition

Please Do (Not) Touch

Re Emergence

Training the Eyes to Train the Hand

CURATORIAL NEWS

Apparition

A Flawed Trinity

Communion & Community

Eulogy for John Zirkelbach

Every Sacred Space

Hocus Pocus

Home Altars

Not Life Alone

Our Sacred Hearts

To Some Point True and Unproven

Voyage of the Soul

Where is Here

Work of the Penitent