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We Were All Women in the Womb: Icelandic Drag Performers On Feminism and Free Expression
“Gender is a social construct and drag breaks it down and reconstructs it.”
Read MoreBoulevard 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 MoreHandsome Devils: Alessandro Tomassetti on Painting the Sensual Man
There is something to be gained from straight men being able to see the beauty in another man and in women being able to see the beauty in a man outside the masculine norm.
Read MoreASTROBLAST: Astrophysicist Raymond Frey Remembers Stephen Hawking
Today’s column is dedicated to English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, researcher and author, Professor Stephen Hawking.
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
Sifting Through Stardust: Conversations with Astrophysicist Raymond Frey
In his new column for Combustus, astrophysicist Raymond Frey, head of the University of Oregon physics department, takes questions sent in by readers on everything from, “Is time travel really possible?” to “What is dark energy, anyway?”
Read MoreThe 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.”
Read MoreThe Sea Casts Its Spell: Interview with Oslo, Norway Figurative Painter, Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen
“If you as a child would approve of how you live your life, then you’re doing it right.”
~Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen, painter, Oslo, Norway
The Interior Life of the Observer: Interview with Figurative Painter Christina Sealey
“I have often found myself in the position of the observer. This creates a feeling of loneliness that pervades my work.”
Read MoreGary Briechle, Rockland, Maine: Wet-plate Collodion Camera Slows Life Down Into Intimate Moments
“When I make a photograph, it has the feeling of a miracle. Almost like a zen thing. The good pictures, I can’t take full credit for them. You don’t make a photograph so much as receive it. I wander around with my eyes open, and I’m just hoping for the best. Sometimes things that you’d never think would be special, you just hit upon, not fully understanding at the time why.”
~Gary Briechle, photographer, Rockland, Maine
Let Me Tell You About My Father…
I invited some of the special people I know ~ from poets whose work has appeared in Combustus magazine to a dancer friend of mine who immigrated from Hungary ~ to share with us some of the wisdom they’ve received over the years from their fathers as well as what has been passed on to their own children.
Read MoreOf Love, Loss and Rebirth: Motoi Yamamoto’s Saltscapes
The former dockyard worker from Hiroshima decided that instead of creating one enduring piece to serve as metaphor for a love never-ending, he would construct a series of temporary installations meticulously fashioned from the painstakingly slow arrangement of so many tiny grains of salt.
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