Welcome to episode 67 of the Patrick Coffin Show.

Today on the Patrick Coffin Show, we're going to talk about art and beauty and ugliness and definitions.

We're going to go upstream into faith and culture with artist Jonathan Pajo.

You're going to love this show. I can't wait to introduce him to you and to go deep into art and

iconography and all the implications thereof right here on the Patrick Coffin Show. I was introduced to this week's

guest by my four-time guest and friend Dr. Jordan Peterson. He said we'd

really click and I've visited his website,

Pedro Carvings and I've loved it.

He graduated with distinction from the Painting and Drawing program at

Concordia University of Montreal.

And after a period of disillusionment with contemporary art, he discovered. of on his journey toward the beautiful and away from the ugly.

Since 2003, Jonathan Pejo has been carving a wide array of liturgical objects

that have been commissioned by churches, bishops, priests, various communities across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia.

My fellow Canadian, Jonathan Pasjo, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

It's great to meet you.

Yeah, I just want to honor Jordan Peterson who said that you two would really, really connect here and I'm sort of

tardy getting back to you to connect but I've I've appreciated your your art and

it's very interesting hearing your story how you let let's start with the hammer

incident the the unmentionable hammer incident where you you almost destroyed all the

work that you'd done in disgust.

Maybe we can start there and we'll go up.

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