Caravaggio’s Dagger – A Pursuit of Right Action

Caravaggio - The Beheading of John the Baptist - Detail, with the signature of the artist in the prophet's blood

Do we, then, find ourselves unable to know how to act ethically in our society — a society that glorifies money and global trade to make the rich richer, that deposits the poor at the outermost edges of community, that stands aside as our heritage disintegrates, that funds wars that dislocate peoples and destroy countries, that supports beliefs steeped […]

The Ferryman's Obolus – Mahler and Freud Meet in Leiden II:III

The Lost Arias of Henk van Strijk, Mount Gardner, Bowen Island, BC, Canada

[First published two years ago, 14 April 2021.] “The Ferryman’s Obolus,” the third and concluding sequence of Part 2 of Mahler and Freud Meet in Leiden, “The Covenant of the Lost Arias.” The obolus, an ancient coin, in additional to everyday mercantile use (one obol purchased a bowl of a double magnum of wine, and three secured […]