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Transpositions is the official blog of the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts at the University of St Andrews. Featured Posts
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Creativity
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Entertaining Ourselves: Communal Creativity and Life Together
Posted on 22/05/2013 | No CommentsWe used to entertain ourselves. Anyone who has read Jane Austen knows that in the evenings of the era, people would gather in the drawing room to listen to others play or sing; other times there might be community dances... -
Making Room for Others: Creative Genius and Theology
Posted on 29/04/2013 | 11 CommentsThis post is long overdue, but I wanted to write it anyway. In a 2009 TED Talk titled “Your Elusive Creative Genius,” Elizabeth Gilbert of Eat, Pray, Love fame spoke about the need for a way of thinking about artistic creativity that... -
Finding Beauty through the Practice of Creating: An Artist’s Reflection
Posted on 24/04/2013 | 6 CommentsI am a painter, designer, curator and creative strategist living and working in Philadelphia who trained in painting and design at The University of the Arts. As someone who has helped people find God and beauty in their lives through... -
Creativity as a Battle: Artists and Academics [Part Two]
Posted on 20/02/2013 | 1 CommentIn my previous post, I suggested three areas of common ground between academics and artists with the final being that both participate in creative and constructive work. The interesting discussion that ensued after this post led me to wonder how... -
Artists and Academics: What They Might Have in Common
Posted on 16/01/2013 | 14 CommentsOver the New Year, I had the pleasure of regularly sitting at a long dinner table with a group of artists, delighting in the conversation that developed as ideas, dreams, and challenges were shared. While this is not a realm... -
The Dandy Imago Dei: Toward an Incarnational Aesthetics in Kierkegaard
Posted on 08/10/2012 | 3 CommentsOscar Wilde once declared that he only put his talent into his works; his true genius, he insisted, had been reserved for his life. Foppish, brilliant, gleefully self-caricaturing (not even Bunthorne, Gilbert and Sullivan’s attempt at parody, could come close... -
Connecting the Dots
Posted on 31/07/2012 | 2 CommentsIt happens to pretty much everyone at an early age. You’re handed a paper smothered in dots, and are instructed to carefully draw lines from one to another, with the promise that an image would appear. Thick crayons scrunched in...
