Quote for Today: Leah Raeder
Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who’ve already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in …
Quote for Today: Jorge Luis Borges
In my childhood I was a fervent worshiper of the tiger: not the jaguar, the spotted “tiger” of the Amazonian tangles and the isles of vegetation that float down the …
Quote for Today: François Truffaut
I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life …
Animal Images: Inspiration from Nature, Part One
From adorable kittens and puppies to majestic lions and wolves, we love pictures of animals. What need do they fulfill? When I am attracted to the image of animal, be …
The Importance of Creative Darkness: Exposed Roots by Katherine McDaniel
Creative people often examine the darkness around their roots for inspiration. Is it dangerous and risky to expose these roots? Human beings often speak of the foundations of their lives as …
Picturing Consciousness: Out of the Deep Waters by Katherine McDaniel
Exploring our inner landscape can be as challenging as exploring the world around us. How are these two worlds linked? My newest painting is called Out of the Deep Waters. It’s about …
Quote for Today: John Cusack
Well, anything that’s interesting in a film, or in a character –all your passion, your sex, your anger, your rage, all that– comes from that part of you that you …
A World of Earth: Yamatane by Yusuke Asai at the Rice Gallery
Modern humanity has found itself disconnected from nature by technology and civilization. Can art help us reconnect with the Earth? Yesterday afternoon I made a trip to the Rice Gallery on …
Quote for Today: Stephen King
The wind makes you ache in some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race …
Quote for Today: Bret Easton Ellis
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you …