The answer is that the
Christian right in our country is constantly trying to force their religious beliefs into the public sphere (science education, school
prayer at public schools, Decalogue displays at court houses, nativity scenes on city
hall property, crosses in all kinds of public places, national days of
prayer, etc.)-- if these things stopped, the outcry from us non-believers would be greatly diminished.
The Philip Slein Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of some of those artists, including Alison
Hall, whose Book of Beginnings is a small black diptych on panel about the size of a book; and Louis Cameron, whose digitally manipulated photos of clouds evoke the 14th - century
Christian mysticism of The Cloud of Unknowing, a guidebook on contemplative
prayer.