By engaging with art imaginatively, we can encounter that deeper reality that the Surrealists have always sought in their artwork.
Nick Leeper S.J.
Nick Leeper, S.J., is a Jesuit in formation and a contemporary iconographer. He teaches art and theology at Xavier High School in New York City.
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When is art sacred? A Jesuit artist on what makes the absurd, the abstract and the ordinary holy
Sacred art is not defined by appearances or even an artist’s intention. It is holy when it awakens us to God, ourselves and the space in between the two.