drmstream[writing]

Here’s how I work: I’ve got a long project under­way that takes focus and energy. To keep my mind lim­ber and my imag­i­na­tion at play, I explore dis­trac­tions in short bursts. I’ll write a story, mull an idea, research a set of images or some idle ques­tion. These are amuse­ments. All the while, I’ve got […]

The clues are every­where, but it isn’t until you see the title that the entire mean­ing becomes clear. I stum­bled across these paint­ings because I fol­low the artist on Twit­ter. Her han­dle is @julia_hensley. I don’t fol­low her because she’s an artist; a writer that I fol­low fol­lows her and I added her as I […]

A con­ver­sa­tion in pass­ing today suc­cinctly summed up what I just spent more than 1200 words try­ing to say. I was talk­ing to a woman about a new job. “What brings you joy?” I asked.  “What brings a big smile to your face?” She paused. “That’s an inter­est­ing ques­tion,” she said. “I love the ah-ha moments.  I love when […]

The artist who painted this works exclu­sively in images. In her fifty-year career, rep­re­sen­ta­tive images make up a tiny por­tion of her work. She is an abstract artist. This is one of the few works where she uses words. The oth­ers were in a series of reli­gious works that she did mainly in the 1970’s, […]

What a gift it is to make an impres­sion that cap­tures the sense of words but lifts free from their anchors!   When I came across the image above, one of a vast set of par­tic­u­lar col­lages by a Min­nesota artist, I vividly con­fronted the pro­saic grind of the long project I am work­ing on now. […]

A touch­ing tableau, as the bride and groom enter through the arbor, the cer­e­mony con­se­crat­ing their love com­plete and the cel­e­bra­tion about to begin. Their fam­ily waits by the entrance. Moments later, they gather for a group por­trait. The tableaus are done by my 11-year old son, made from toi­let paper rolls and assorted other “environmentally-correct” […]

Just how bound up nat­ural beauty is with art beauty is con­firmed by the expe­ri­ence of the for­mer. For it, nature is exclu­sively appear­ance, never the stuff of labor and the repro­duc­tion of life, let alone the sub-stratum of sci­ence. Like the expe­ri­ence of art, the aes­thetic expe­ri­ence is that of images. Nature, as appearing […]

via johnhemmenart.com Inspired, isn’t it? And a lit­tle scary… Posted via web from Dan McCarthy’s Stream

via projo.com This image has been the leit­mo­tif for the Roger’s ret­ro­spec­tive of selected paint­ings at the New­port Art Museum. Says the reviewer: Yet despite the chal­lenges, some artists wouldn’t have it any other way. A case in point is Rita Rogers, a New­port artist who’s the focus of a won­der­ful one-person show at the […]