
Saved by Lael Johnson and
Corita Kent: Gentle Revolutionary of the Heart (People of God)
Saved by Lael Johnson and
As the church lost its role as the dominant commissioner of images, it also lost its grip on the cultural narratives around breasts—a loss registered as artists depict breasts other than Mary’s.
I would try to make things as freely available as I could: I would encourage sharing, burning, torrenting, and downloading. But I would leave my hat out, I would ask, and I would work from a place of gratitude if people stepped up to help. I wanted it to be like the street.
Without the masculine construct of the path, and without the theistic idea of a calling from a masculine god, the idea of the life as a work of art infuses self-invention with the type of spirituality that Max Weber suggested would supplant theism: the substitution of aesthetic judgments for moral ones.