Last Monday at the Sophia Center, we dived into an art project that sounded light-hearted: making creatures with “magical” powers. I expected the class to be playful and whimsical. Silly me! As it turns out, creating art has a way of uncovering the deep, transformative currents of the soul—and making magical creatures seemed to amplify…
I find oodles of inspiration and fresh ideas in the field of graphic design. These are examples of the work of Alan Fletcher, who is considered by many to be the father of modern graphic design and one of Britain’s most prolific artists. I love his quirky mix—turning words into art and art into words….
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 never ripened. I let it sit there, forgotten, while the rest of the fruit was picked, and the tree lost all its leaves for the winter. Then Suzanne came…
My new favorite art book is Picturing and Poeting by the renowned graphic designer Alan Fletcher. British writer Fiona MacCarthy offers an intriguing insight in her foreword 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…
Isamu Noguchi, the celebrated Japanese American artist and landscape designer, once described the creative act as a process of awakening: “I don’t think art comes from art… I think it comes from the awakening person. Awakening is what you might call the spiritual… Everything tends toward awakening.” This idea—that creativity stems not from art itself but…
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