A friend took this photo of a pomegranate on the tree in front of my house. It had been looking sad and neglected—for some reason it had never ripened, so I let it sit there while in the meantime, the rest of the fruit was picked and the tree lost all its leaves for the…
My new fave art book is Picturing and Poeting by noted graphic designer Alan Fletcher. British writer Fiona MacCarthy wrote something interesting in her forward to the book. She describes the “moment of crystallization when an idea changes state. The point at which the word transforms itself to make a picture. The stage at which…
Magda Cragg, speaking of her partner, the poet Lew Welch said, “He made space around you, so you could grow.”
Saints and sages have always claimed that the true seat of the mind is in the heart. In 1932 an American Indian medicine man told Carl Jung that white men, with their wrinkled faces and constant anger, were insane and killed so wantonly becuase they thought in their heads. Whole people, he explained, think in…
Everything in art that is profound and fundamentally important cannot be described. -Milton Glaser, Drawing is Thinking
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