Daniel Needham

I portray scripture from my own particular humanist post-catholic perspective.  I do it to challenge the Holy See’s icons and to blunt its messages.  When I need to find additional inspiration, I look in scripture and at the treasured icons of the Vatican until I find something appalling.

My artistic process is somewhat stochastic and inevitably linear in that I am inspired randomly, and then I architect and, finally, I paint — or I sculpt.

I like carving in rock best.  Rock art lasts longest.  But I do like to alternate between the carving of bits away and the more colorful additive artistic processes: of daubing on bits of paint; and of making and assembling stuff.  I am struck every time by how three things — the medium itself, the process of creation, and my humanity — each impact my artistic outcomes.  Usually it’s for the better . . .

I make post-catholic art for the next millennia,

@ikonocaustic

PS I do also sometimes make secular art (to tell other stories).