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Of 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.
Read MoreChristina Bothwell, Sculptures in Glass and Stone
“I was a little surprised to hear so many people express that they perceive my pieces as being intentionally disturbing. Wanting to explore the workings of the unconscious tends to make people feel uncomfortable. They imagine death…I like to think of insects caught in amber.”
Read MoreBeauty Lies In Our Ability to Abandon Ourselves: Interview with Muralist Dante Horoiwa
“After a mural is finished, people will begin to picnic in front of the painting. It is almost impossible not to look at it.”
Read MoreNow We Bow Our Heads: Interview with Poet Ralph Pennel
But I believe that we all, at the very least,
should have some. Beauty, that is.
Maybe even just a little more. That
even in a poem about beauty
we must be moved to see its two sure hands
and how our own fit perfectly inside them.
The Fertile Ground of New York City Oil Painter Martin Wittfooth
“I’m exploring allegories of rebirth: the notion that we often have to let something die (metaphorically speaking) for something else to be allowed to be realized and flourish.”
Read MoreBeyond the Violence, an Oasis: Interview with Edgar Noe Mendoza Mancillas
“I grew up in a neighborhood where the values of the people were mainly based on a sexist structure. It was also a violent atmosphere where the strongest children stood out. In that environment, it was preferable to keep quiet any artistic or creative inquisitiveness, or risk being judged or banished.”
Read MoreThe Intelligence of Dreams: Art We Create For Ourselves
In our dreams, through the character of the anima, we get to experience becoming this girl who lives in each of our souls.
~ Marc Bregman, archetype dreamworker
Pam Hawkes, UK: A Deeper Truth
DEANNA ELAINE PIOWATY: “Your definition of ‘beauty’?”
PAM HAWKES: “Surfaces that I want to stroke, touch or lick.”
Artists & Writers Who Ignite Us
What is it about a particular painting, poem, photograph, piece of music, dance performance that sets us so on fire? There’s clearly an alchemy at work here which cannot be contrived or predicted, a mixing of what the artist brings forth from the imagination, together with what we ourselves carry to the experience: our own unique psychology, personal history, those all-but-forgotten stories from our past.
The following, then, is a very personal pick list of those who have resonated both with my readers and myself, artists and writers who shared with us, through their work and interviews here, precious glimpses into their psyches and souls: sometimes tender and exquisite, other times painful, even disquieting, but always courageous, insightful, honest.
Read MoreArt As Therapy for the Unsatisfied Man: Interview with Argentine painter, Martin Llamedo
“Making a man happy, for more than a few seconds after consumption, is not very interesting to a consumer society; for them an unsatisfied man is preferable. Beauty and art, therefore, is fundamental therapy today.”
Read MoreThe Natural Tension Between Creativity and Constraints
“Math is inseparable from nature, from us; and, as the search for numbers went on for thousands of years, numbers represent the human search for knowledge. “
Read MoreA Cold Story On a Warm Night: The Mischief-Making of Pamela Wilson
“I like the juxtaposition of a cold story in a warm light. It creates confusion and room to explore.”
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