Refractions 'r us

Very excited to pick up (on the Crossroads book table... it's well worth browsing!) a copy of Makoto Fujimura's book 'refractions'. Based on blog posts and essays, it's a great insight into this bi-cultural artist's life, work and faith. Fujimura is a wonderful artist, who brings centuries-old Japanese techniques alive in 21st century abstract forms (and layers his paintings with gold to symbolise the heavenly city). He has a grasp on beauty that is rare in the art world of today.. and as it turns out, he's a good writer too. Books on the interface between faith and art are very often written by theorists, rather than by successful artists, so this is a great treat.... gold dust from an artists who knows what gold dust is for.