Dick Shook

Peoria Methodist Church
Tree of Life Progress







Recent Journal Entries

Wheat and Tares


This is an altered concept for my wheat and tares allegory/parable. I preferred having my model rea...

Art Appreciation Part III Being Human


Human beings are perception processors. We receive stimuli from all sorts of sources, touch, light,...



Art Appreciation Series

Art Appreciation


There are different approaches to art appreciation. There's the "who paid 12 million dollars for wh...




Art Appreciation Part II, The Economics of Art


When Damien Hirst's work, "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" becom...




Art Appreciation Part II.a


Last time I briefly mentioned the notion of perceived value and intrinsic value. In some ways it's ...




Art Appreciation Part IV The Intellectual


Technically all art is about ideas, even if the art is about emotion, even the technically excell...

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Slater Summer Daze
Don and Joyce Thornwall

by S. Richard Shook

The Tree of Life
Part I

by S. Richard Shook




My Friend, Iraqi Artist Amer Saleh Alobaidi


One of the things that my wife and I enjoy very much are collecting books about the things that we e...




Slater Summer Daze-Joyce and Don Thornwall


Just finished "Slater Summer Daze-Don and Joyce Thornwall". This will help us celebrate Slater's 20...

David and Sam

by S. Richard Shook

Dick Shook