Quote for Today: Stephen King
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open …
Quote for Today: Grace Dane Mazur
An almost invisible bird, a small piece of hopping dirt, purposed along the edge of the flower bed, eyeing for beauty or looking for worms. Olivia watched it as she …
Quote for Today: Saul Bellow
Some powerful magnificence not human in other words, seemed under me. And it was the same mild pink colour, like the water of a watermelon, that did it. At …
Quote for Today: Annie Dillard
The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is the object of vision, and what I see before me at any …
Quote for Today: Garten Gevedon
Atmospheric dust billows in polychromed glitter above me, the vibrant, shimmering haze decorating the blue-blackness of space, and its luminous, variegated hues remind me of the one wish I …
Look and Listen #10: El Anatsui, Gravity and Grace at the Akron Art Museum, 2012
Ghanian artist El Anatsui makes monumental installations from aluminum bits… bottle caps, can lids and more. He has a team of twenty to thirty men who help him assemble his …
Look and Listen #9: Xenobia Bailey’s Aesthetic of Funk
Here are two wonderful videos of Xenobia Bailey, a multi-faceted artist influenced by funk and ethnomusicology. Born Sherilyn Bailey in Seattle, she took the name Xenobia to draw on the …
Quote for Today: Catherynne M. Valente
A story is a map of the world. A gloriously colored and wonderful map, the sort one often sees framed and hanging on the wall in a study full …
Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far …
Quote for Today: John Mark Green
When it rains, the world softens around the edges; streets and sidewalks become a liquid mirror onto which lights and colors bleed. When it rains, everything becomes beautiful . . …