Artist Y.Z. Kami's recent works deal with iconic representation and the transformation of reality into historical image. Kami's oil-on-linen portraits of young men are influenced by ancient Egyptian and Byzantine portraiture in the way the features are rendered simply and uniformly so that the...

Interpretations of divinity in both Eastern and Western philosophy include aspects of the ordinary or everyday. Some, such as the Japanese concept of kami, center on the similarities of gods to human beings, with social structures and varying virtues. Others, such as Martin Heidigger's...