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Alfred Eaker
Alfred Eaker has been obsessively working on his first novel, BrotherCobweb, for the last five years and, off and on, for a quarter of a century.Additionally, his first eighteen ye...view moreAlfred Eaker has been obsessively working on his first novel, BrotherCobweb, for the last five years and, off and on, for a quarter of a century.Additionally, his first eighteen years were spent in a ho-de-ho, backwoods,sawdust on the floor, wooden pews Pentecostal Church in the Midwest.In other words, Eaker’s been working toward this novel his whole damnedlife.In his career as an artist, Eaker’s work has been paradoxically labeled asdegenerate, orthodox, heterodox, modernist, mystical theology, provocative,academic, and blasphemous. Indeed, blasphemy is a language that Eakerseems to speak fluently, even when he doesn’t mean to, and he’s been doing itthrough painting, performance art, independent film, and film criticism forthree decades.Eaker attended John Herron School of Art with a focus on fine artspaintings, attained his bachelor of theology from St. Mary-of-the-Woodsand a master of theological studies in the arts from Christian TheologicalSeminary. Additionally, Eaker has done extensive studiesview less