Posts by Deanna Selene
Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Richard T. Scott Paints America’s Identity Crisis
“We become ourselves precisely when we drop the narrative, when we give up trying to construct our identity.”
Read MoreSomething Lost, Something New: Interview with Painter Maya Kulenovic
“This is how history unfolds, after destruction some things are forever lost, and some can be rebuilt. The result is something new, founded on the lifeline of what was before.”
Read MoreThe Extraordinary Time of Jay Parnell
We are being fed new narratives every day by the news, television, music, and movies. Most of these stories are damaging and lead to a sense of helplessness. Those stories need to be discredited, amended or re-written. I’m amending folklore.
Read MoreThe Life Imagined: Interview with Psychotherapist, Andrew Nargolwala
“Every relationship is an interaction. And a healthy relationship is an act of constant creation. That is why I always say that no one can ever know what he or she desires sexually until that individual explores the possibilities with their unique partner.”
Read MoreDavid Jon Kassan: Painting a Different Kind of Beautiful
“When an artist says they’re searching for beauty, I believe that what the artist is truly searching for is love.”
~ David Jon Kassan
The Inexplicable Paintings of Rafel Bestard
The role of art is to humanize the inexplicable.
Read MoreLittle Deaths: Spain’s Miguel Angel Moya Paints Creatures Under Glass
I start with something immaterial, something mysterious that wants expression and I try to turn that into something material: a painting.
Read MoreThe Ungraspable Shadow
“If you look at my work, you will notice I hide my models a lot. And because I hide them. I am able to show more.”
~ Photographer Jonathan Mechanicus, Netherlands
There is No Beauty Without the Sacred: Parisian Sculptor/Philosopher Marc Vinciguerra On Returning Meaning to Art
“When I sculpt someone it is not his body that I sculpt but his soul.”
Read MoreWhere the Light Gets In: Slam Poetry Artist Zachary Kluckman on single parenthood, depression, and the power of art-making in community
Before I knew it, I was working with undocumented students, and people in recovery, activists, artists, even elected officials. All of this because I started writing poetry.
Read MoreMaking A Difference: Community Visionaries
“After a mural is finished, people will picnic in front of the painting. It is almost impossible not to look.”
Read MoreJust Be Yourself, You Are Wonderful: Modern Fresco Painter Ali Cavanaugh On Finding Forgiveness and Freedom
“I know what that is like when you can’t hold it together any longer, when it just all comes down on top of you.”
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