The Spectrum of the Soul
To make serious and lasting art – art that refracts the world back to people in some meaningful way, and that illuminates human nature with sympathy and insight – it is not necessary to be a religious believer but it is necessary to have some sort of larger system of belief, a larger structure of continuity that permits works of art to speak across time.
-Michael J. Lewis
And what if the art maker, Alexander Aizenshtat, is a religious believer? Would that impact how serious and lasting his art is? Will the inner journey of his soul affect the art he makes and deepen our experience?
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