The Echo of the Real Thing While not being truly abstract, Alexandra Exter’s Landscape with Houses and Trees, is a type of art I’m always drawn to: non-realistic verging on non-objective. The curves of green trees lean out from…
Time and Mortality Time and mortality: it’s not that we don’t realize we’re all mortal, it’s that the reminder comes as a surprise. A glance in the mirror that reminds us, only vaguely, of a relative or long gone friend.…
More Parts: Add Up Wholes are made from parts. Parts and more parts, which add up to something even more. Obvious, right? Sometimes we can’t see the individual bits. The atoms that made up an oak table. The bones in…
You Know What This Is — and don’t we all know? This week’s poem of the week is “You Know What This Is,“ a poem referring obliquely to our tendency to fool ourselves and our need to be reminded that,…
Harbor Park comes out of that feeling that, although you are in a famous place, you are somehow not really ‘getting’ the experience of it.
