Quote for Today: Walt Whitman
Smile O voluptuous cool-breath’d earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset–earth of the mountains misty-topt! Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon …
Quote for Today: Robert Collier
Vision: It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. —Robert …
Modern Creation Myth: Thoughts on Abiogenesis by Richard Mans
In our time, the tantalizing mystery of Creation is usually explored through science or religion. Can art provide vision also? This short film, Abiogenesis, by Richard Mans, produced by Fuzzy Realms, …
Quote for Today: J.R.R. Tolkien
It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; …
Quote for Today: Norman Maclean
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. …
Protecting Nature’s Heart: The Dream of the Green Lady by Katherine McDaniel
Our planet is a complex and beautiful incubator for life. How can we experience our connection to her more fully? I bought a set of acrylic paints by …
Creatures of the Wind: Theo Jansen’s Strandbeesten
We are born with the urge to build and make things. What does this creativity tell us about our origins? Since 1990, Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been designing animals from PVC …
Quote for Today: Mary Cassatt
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up. —Mary Cassatt
A Dream of Willow: Tom Hare’s Seed Walk
Any creation is subject to the strengths and weakness of its parts. What does this tell us about our world? English artist Tom Hare weaves willow stems, or withies, together to form beautiful …
Quote for Today: Matsuo Bashō
The temple bell stops– but the sound keeps coming out of the flowers. —Matsuo Bashō, translated by Robert Bly, The Sea and the Honeycomb: A Book of Tiny Poems, 1971, Beacon …