Performance art by Joe Castillo

A student in my current on-line course, Educating in Faith, shared her memories of an evangelistic ”chalk artist.” Reading her comments I too remembered those presentations. I’m not a big fan of the graphic arts as ”performance art.” My early cognitive mapping related to art seems to have created a taxonomy that wants something to be one thing or the other, but not both. It’s either art or it isn’t; it’s ”craft” or high art; it’s a painting or a sculpture; it’s a drawing or a painting. Obviously, I’m not a big fan of ”mixed media,” and photorealistic Photoshop creations launches me into a philosophical aesthetical inner debate about whether what I’m looking at is ”art” or not.

But a friend sent me this link to Joe Castillo’s site. As far as performance art, it’s pretty good. Nice use of synesthesia and the ”finger painting” medium is very cool. Enjoy

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Israel Galindo is Professor and Associate Dean for Lifelong Learning at Columbia Theological Seminary.
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