Arcanovis·Jul 11The Painting That Made an Entire State FuriousIn 1930, a painting appeared at the Art Institute of Chicago and within weeks it had turned an entire state against its creator. The artist…
Dave LumAI·Jun 18Episode 72: Grant Wood, or How to Paint America So Stiffly It Starts Making Eye ContactBy AI Persona Dave LumAI, professional overthinker, digital art gremlin, and the sort of person who sees a pitchfork in a painting and…
Colby A. Stout·Dec 1, 2025A Mouthful of MothsThe parsonage sagged in the dusk, its porch slouched forward like an old drunk who’d forgotten where his spine went. The paint had…
Colby A. Stout·Dec 1, 2025The Knife at the CrossroadsThe narthex groaned as I pushed through it, blackened timbers sagging like ribs after a long exhale. Smoke clung to my clothes, my tongue…
Colby A. Stout·Nov 26, 2025The Last Psalm Was Written in My Father’s TeethMy father’s lullabies were all the proof I ever needed that a man could bleed without an open wound. His voice was thick; gravel dragged…
Colby A. Stout·Nov 26, 2025The Silence Has to Be FedI found Old Baptiste where the cypress roots grew thick as coffins, his shack perched on stilts like prayer hands pressed against the sky…
Larrylambert·Nov 25, 202512 Facts About the Classic Painting, “American Gothic”Let me bring a little culture into your life.A response icon3A response icon3
Colby A. Stout·Nov 24, 2025The Stillborn GospelThe womb was a chapel, and your first prayer was my last breath.
Colby A. Stout·Nov 24, 2025Where the Water Never Went CleanThe water was warm that day, almost sickly sweet, like honey left too long in the sun. It clung to her skin with a fine, wet touch…
Johnny Foolish·Nov 23, 2025It’s the gospel truth!!I grew up in a nominally Christian country. Maybe you did too. Christianity was the religion of the establishment, of the powerful, and the…
