Reads tagged with “art”
Fluid Becoming Solid Becoming Wonder: Artist Meghann Riepenhoff’s Otherworldly Cyanotype Prints of Ice Formation
A fluid serenade to this blue world, with a side of Rebecca Solnit.
Wisdom Engines: A Visual Meditation on Consciousness, the Elasticity of Time, and the Nature of Happiness
A humming serenade to the “awareness of awareness” from which our creative restlessness springs.
Henry Miller on the Secret to Growth, in Art and in Life
“The reality is always there, and it is preceded by vision. And if one keeps looking steadily the vision crystallizes into fact or deed. There is no escaping it. It doesn’t matter what route one travels.”
What Makes Great Art: The Single Most Important Element in Creative Work
“Art is a miracle, superior to the laws.”
The Sea and the Soul: Poet, Painter, and Philosopher Etel Adnan on the Elemental Blues of Being
“For seeing the sea it’s sometimes better to close one’s eyes.”
Beegu: A Tender Illustrated Parable About the Loneliness of Feeling Alien in an Unfeeling World
For all the hopeful creatures.
The Unphotographable #5: Georgia O’Keeffe on the Grandeur of Machu Picchu and Peru’s Otherworldly Mountains
Sometimes, a painting in words is worth a thousand pictures. I think about this more and more, in our compulsively visual culture, which increasingly reduces what we think and feel and see — who and what we are — to what can be photographed. I think of Susan Sontag, who called it “aesthetic consumerism” half a century before Instagram. In a small act of resistance, I offer The Unphotographable — Saturdays, a lovely image in words drawn from centuries of literature: passages transcendent and transportive, depicting landscapes and experiences radiant with beauty and feeling beyond what a visual image could convey.
The Great Naturalist John Burroughs on the Art of Noticing and What Artists Can Learn from Naturalists
“We think we have looked at a thing sharply until we are asked for its specific features.”
Keith Haring on Our Resistance to Change, the Dangers of Certainty, and the Root of Creativity
“To be a victim of change is to ignore its existence.”
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