Quote for Today: Wim Wenders
That’s how it begins, making a film, writing a book, painting a picture, composing a tune, generally creating something. You have a wish. You wish that something might exist, and …
Quote for Today: Edward W. Said
No one can deny the persisting continuities of long traditions, sustained habitations, national languages, and cultural geographies, but there seems no reason except fear and prejudice to keep insisting on …
Quote for Today: Steve Grand
I hope you have thought of an experience from your childhood. Something you can remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really …
Featured Artist: Catherine Vance
Synkroniciti is so pleased to welcome back writer and poet Catherine Vance, another wonderful local Houstonian featured in our new issue, “Transcend.” Three of her vibrant and powerful poems grace …
Picturing Wildness: The Beasts of Henri Rousseau
Artists are often told to work from experience, to relate what we know. There is more to knowledge and experience than physical reality, however. When it comes to inspiration, the …
Quote for Today: Anton Chekhov
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that …
Quote for Today: Lloyd Douglas
For many years a tree might wage a slow and silent warfare against an encumbering wall, without making any visible progress. One day the wall would topple–not because the tree …
A Testament to Motion: The Art of Toots Zynsky
Have you ever created something that made you feel more alive? Amazing things can happen when we follow our passion. Delizioso, Image © Dane Gallery Mary Ann Toots …
Quote for Today: Louise Erdrich
I love plants. For the longest time I thought that they died without pain. But of course after I had argued with Mary she showed me clippings on how plants …
Quote for Today: Signe Pike
I wanted to find something of the beauty of myth that we’ve left behind, carry its shreds before us all, so we could acknowledge it, somehow bring it back to …