Perception & Contemplation feat. Dony MacManus

“Listening with a capital L is the secret to life, the secret to love, because you can’t love what you don’t understand, and you can only understand if you listen.”

What if it were your actual job to contemplate? To perceive deeply? That’s how Dony MacManus sees his calling as an artist. He spent three weeks just drawing Michaelangelo’s Pieta, and he shares how that experience healed and changed him.

Living in our distracted world, I know it’s a struggle to concentrate enough to enter into authentic contemplation. Dony’s artistic perspective will help you counteract fast culture with slow gratitude, appreciation, and relationship.

• Perception is the “grammar” of contemplation
• How Dony vacillates between conceptual (“architectural”) and perceptual (“musical”) realities when he begins a work of art, and how it relates to Christian prayer life
• What "Forward in tradition" means, and how that creates great culture
• How to begin to contemplate using sacred art
• Why contemplation is like dating
• How to concentrate in a distracted world

Resources

• Dony's website
• Dony MacManus Studios
• Worthy of Wearing by Nicole Caruso
• Theology of Home by Dr. Carrie Gress
• The Fundamental Secret of Happiness by Dominick Albano

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