Here’s how this week’s arts and culture column begins:
“Chapel Ikons” (Treaty Oak Publishers, $25.29), a book of photographs and meditations, is a collaboration between Austin-based iconographer, landscape and portrait artist John Patrick Cobb and William Y. Penn Jr., Ph.D.
After a series of personal tragedies in 1977-1978 and in existential despair, Cobb moved to the Gulf Coast island of Port Aransas. He structurally and artistically restored an old seaman’s chapel there — known as The Chapel in the Dunes — that, in spite of several subsequent hurricanes, still stands.
A turning point occurred with his arrival in the early 1980s at Austin’s St. Edwards University and the connections he formed there with the Brothers of the Holy Cross. He discovered a spiritual community and a way of living that continues to shape him to this day.
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