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July 25, 2015
Why I make art
spirituality

Reading ““Crow Mountain”” by Can Xue

"Crow Mountain." Translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping. Asymptote, July 2015.   When you read Can Xue’'s story "“Crow Mountain,"” you'’re reading about a young girl who wishes to investigate a place. It’'s called Crow Mountain, but it’'s really a derelict

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April 11, 2015
Drawings, Why I make art
Drawing

Two Childhood Drawings

The little shed where the skaters sit to lace up their skates seems precariously balanced on the edge of the pond, as if I couldn’t quite figure out how to orient it accurately. That is probably because, while the skating

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February 21, 2015
Sculpture, Why I make art
sculpture

“Seated Man” at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

"Seated Man"--This man is a cube. He emerges from a block of stone in his display case at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He is pure shape. He has a pure face with wide-open eyes. He radiates the calm of

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February 14, 2015
Sculpture, Why I make art
sculpture, spirituality

“Horseman and Dog” at Boston’s MFA

  Almost every time I visit Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, I have a look at this small sculpture. It's a favorite, and I often take guests to see the piece in the Greek galleries. The terracotta figurine is a funerary

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February 7, 2015
Paintings, Why I make art
painting

Animal Imagery and Color—The Work of Franz Marc

"Your paintings remind me of the work of Franz Marc." I received this comment (and, I think, compliment) some months ago from a young visitor to my website. It immediately reminded me of a 1912 painting of Marc's entitled Deer

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January 31, 2015
Why I make art
spirituality

On Reading Black Elk Speaks and Seeing Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky

For those who don’t know, Black Elk Speaks was written in 1932 by the poet John Neihardt, based on his translated conversations with Black Elk, an Oglala Lakota medicine man. Black Elk, who died in 1950, was a witness not

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January 17, 2015
Why I make art
Drawing

Winter Inspiration

I dream often of my maternal grandmother's house. This has been going on for years. Often I'm trying to return there. Sometimes I'm fixing it up or planning to buy back the place. The house itself is long gone, probably

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December 6, 2014
Why I make art
painting

Larry Rivers and the Fluid Nature of Seeing

Larry Rivers, “Self Figure” (1953) Fractured energy plays across the surface of this work in oil on canvas. Ostensibly, it’s a painting of a single figure moving through space. To my mind, what’s represented here is not a person but an

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