Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary lives and works in London. Her paintings, sculptures and virtual reality installations explore the ambiguity of being human and the interplay between the large, chaotic, and …
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people. ― Edgar Degas Edgar Degas, …
Introduction to Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say …
There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual …
Valhalla Rising is a complex and violent film, full of beautiful, savage images and scant dialogue. What actually happens onscreen? Nicolas Winding Refn‘s brutal tour-de-force Valhalla Rising stars Mads Mikkelsen …
Soon it will be evening and the clear night sky will be dusted thickly with Summer stars. I shall be here, as always, smoking by the water. I have decided …
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, …
What do you see in this spontaneous drawing? I draw first and find meaning later, so you can’t be wrong. This drawing is entitled Totem because of its vague …
We could see the children’s toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the …
How can we allow the arts to reveal deeper understanding? By releasing the desire to evaluate and cultivating enchantment. Over the holiday weekend I attended Divergence Vocal Theater’s CD release …
