Quote for Today: Jeanette Winterson
I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. …
Featured Artist: Michel Pavlou
Synkroniciti is honored to welcome filmmaker Michel Pavlou, who spends his time in Brussels and Oslo and in between. Michel, along with poet Natasha Heidsieck Mak, won our video contest …
Quote for Today: Gaston Bachelard
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have …
Featured Artist: Elaine T. Nguyen
Synkroniciti is tickled pink to welcome back interdisciplinary artist Elaine T. Nguyen with five paintings from her new project, Chapters and a feature article. Chapters is an artist’s reaction to …
Featured Artist: Tina Šulc Resnik
Meet video artist Tina Šulc Resnik from Slovenia! Tina’s graceful, dreamy images are enchanting and I am so excited to introduce Trees in Life, an international collaboration with poet Kuzhur …
Quote for Today: James Rosenquist
Popular culture isn’t a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images …
Quote for Today: W.B. Yeats
We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a …
Quote for Today: Frank McCourt
Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You’ll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I’m still …
Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean around a hole in the void, and in the waters, more …
Dolls from Around the World, part two: Folk Dolls and the Female Image
From inspiring imagination to setting expectations and limits, dolls teach concepts like gender and class. What do they tell us? We can’t interpret our world without creating context, including scientific …