Posts Tagged ‘interview’
Something 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 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 MoreWe 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 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
For the Love of Music and Beauty: Interview with Singer, Songwriter, Halie Loren
“…And you are reminded of just how strong this medium is and yet also how little it has to do with you. You realize that it’s not just about you.”
~ Halie Loren
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.”
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
Gary 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 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.