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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 MoreThe Lies We’re Told, The Lies We Tell Ourselves, and the Hopeful Truth
“If only I had parented differently, if only I had been a better child, if only I had been more desirable, then the addict would never have chosen their addiction over me. The truth is that addiction is a complicated process that no other person can be responsible for, only the addict. To believe otherwise is at the heart of codependency.”
~Andrew Nargolwala, psychotherapist
David 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 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 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.”
Read More“Beauty Is Not Perfection, It Is Sublimating the Imperfect”: Interview with Helene Delmaire, France
“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
The New Year and the Self-Portrait as Self-Reflection: Interview with Jaakko Savolainen, Finland
“Making a self-portrait is a very emotional and impulsive process.”
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