Refractions Reviewed in Bucknell Mag

Refractions (NavPress)

In 2003, Makoto Fujimura, an internationally acclaimed artist and church leader, was appointed to the National Council on the Arts. This came as he continued to struggle with the aftershock of Sept.11, 2001. He began a practice of Saturday morning reflective writing through which he reached for the healing power of art to re-humanize a shattered world. His book Refractions, richly illustrated with color plates of his and other artists’ work, collects many of these very readable, contemplative essays that are an amalgam of art criticism, philosophy and spiritual journey. “Theologically speaking,” he writes, “we are all living in the ashes of Ground Zero, in our own Waste Land. But we carry the dust of Eden in our DNA."