The Dark Night and the Busy Hand

So with the state of the world and varied personal distractions it's taken me awhile to work up the energy to mention that I recently published an article in the most recent Fall 2019 issue of Listening a Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture (mailed to readers just before everything shut down in 2020).  The issue on Catholic Art Post Christendom was guest edited by good friend, talented artist, and way more clever essayist Timothy Collins, and I was honored to be asked to contribute along with a number of artists and friends for whom I have the deepest respect.

The Dark Night and the Busy Hand: Personal Observations on Making as an Expression of Faith is a reflection on faith, trauma and the relationship between art and ritual. It is way more personal than I am comfortable with, yet there it is in black and white.
So it goes.

Check the issue out: 

Long Time

I realize just how long it's been since I've used this blog. Words were never really my thing, though I put a lot of them down here so maybe makes sense that I shifted toward Instagram. I took back up doing the drawing a day thing this year, feeling out of sorts for a variety of reasons I think I was gravitating back toward the sense of ritual and certainty it gave me in the adrift year of 2015. I haven't been posting them here consistently. Some of the better ones I'm putting on instagram https://www.instagram.com/santella.anthony/ others just FB. But today's, shot in situ, at least I'll put here. Burning Promise Keeping Machine, ink, 2020