Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts

Friday, October 10, 2025

What Fresh Hell Is This?

 



Fresh hell? Yes, just another attempt by trendy lefty Church of England apostates to make their venerable if shrinking slice of the UK's religious equation more relevant to the unchurched masses. How? By decorating Canterbury Cathedral with a graffiti "art" exhibition. 

It's interactive, apparently. You write down questions, send them off and an, ahem, artist turns them into ersatz pseudo-pop graffiti which is then displayed on the walls and pillars of the beautiful cathedral. It looks like this:




Here's another:




Beautiful, isn't it, and so likely to draw in the crowds and pack the pews of the dismally declining denomination. I mean to say, who wouldn't be attracted to worship God in all his numinous mystery in England's foremost cathedral by graffiti posing as religious art? So much for some 2000 years of Christian aesthetics.

The genius behind this installation is Alex Vellis, poet and "curator of Jacquiline Creswell's collaboration with marginalised communities and a team of skilled artists."  How very awesome, and that's what his "art" in Canterbury cathedral's all about, per the Daily Mail:


Language is the people who speak it, and graffiti is the language of the unheard. By temporarily graffitiing the inside of Canterbury Cathedral, we join a chorus of the forgotten, the lost, and the wondrous. People who wanted to make their mark, to say 'I was here', and to have their etchings carry their voice through the centuries.

 

Wondrous? Yes indeed, wonder at the mawkish suicide of a once great part of God's Church and its desecration of England's principal cathedral. Alex Willis was organizer of the Sex Work Symposium in Canterbury in 2019. Why? Because of course he was. On topic, the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral is David Montief, who lives with his boyfriend David Hamilton in a "civil partnership."

You can imagine, dear readers, what Augustine of Canterbury would make of this. Come back, Reginald Pole, we need you.

Dies Irae,

LSP


Sunday, April 2, 2017

Storm, Art, Flag, Bishop



The three or four Russian hackers that read this mind blog keep asking, "Tovarich, LSP, there are no posts! What is happening? Explain." Alright, I will.




Things have been incredibly busy at the Compound, with Lent talks, Stations of the Cross, an Episcopal Visitation, storms, flying the flag and making art.




It's a simple installation; a plain color field whose center is an absence, a void inviting projection as we journey downwards and beneath the image. Is it a reflection, a mirror, an image of the other or none of these things? It's called "X Ring," serious inquiries only.




Great art aside,  our enemy the Weather has launched a ferocious offensive, unleashing thunder, lightning and torrential rain. Our bishop braved that this morning to visit the missions; well done, Jack Iker.




It will probably storm again tonight and the Compound, like the prow or bridge of a ship, will stand tall against the fury of the elements.

Be safe,

LSP

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Is Joni Mitchell a Devil Witch? Survey Results.

Joni Mitchell, Devil Witch?

A recent opinion poll shows that most people think that the once famous singer songwriter, Joni Mitchell, is a Devil Witch. 

Definitely a Devil Witch

Out of a representative sample of 24 persons, a large majority of 16 respondents thought that Joni Mitchell was either "Probably a Devil Witch" or "Definitely a Devil Witch." A further 6 persons were unsure if the singer was a "Devil Witch" or not and a small minority of 2 persons thought that she was "Not a Devil Witch."

Trending Bad

Unsolicited comments to pollsters included, "she plays the dulcimir, nuff said" and "I never trusted her!" One respondent answered the survey questionnaire in code: DEMIC. Service CAPE. 4 TINE.

Don't hang out with that deadbeat, Joni

Known for hit singles, such as "Coyote", in which Mitchell sings about "white lines" and sex, the pop star was allegedly inspired by a "spirit guide", or "cosmic being," that some sources claim she referred to as "Art." In one of her pop hits, Mitchell refers darkly to "paradise" being "paved" in order to "put up a parking lot."

"Art"?

Was Mitchell inspired by a demon called Art? Is she a Devil Witch? The polls are still open.

You decide.

LSP