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Monthly Archives: December 2009

Release

The tradition of the wild party for New Years probably has something to do with the idea of catharsis, an explosive releasing of pent-up emotion through acting out.  We want to exhaust the frustration, regrets and resentments of the ending year by burning off the lingering energy to awaken to a fresh new day.  Of [...]

Snow in the City

Last weekend the Eastern U.S. had its first major snowfall of the season, immediately preceding the Winter Solstice.  Around this time of year our culture ritually celebrates the White Christmas and the Winter Wonderland, Jack Frost and Frosty the Snowman, calling up nostalgic images of horse-drawn sleigh rides and cozy houses among rolling hills of [...]

Self Portrait

This is a self-portrait, drawn in 40 minutes this past Sunday evening.  The version above has been flipped across the vertical axis so it appears as I appear to others, rather than as I see myself in a mirror.  My self-portraits always look a bit angry.  I think it’s just the intensity of the artist’s [...]

Light and Stone

Thomas William Brown is an art therapist and a stone carver.  Many of his works, like those seen above in a detail from an installation of sculptures shown in an exhibit last year at the gallery of the Art Students’ Leage of New York, are based on architectural motifs.  When he talks about his process, [...]

The Mind is an Antenna

A long time ago, someone taught me a simple way of meditation.  I was told that thoughts would come, and I should let them go.  You can’t stop the thoughts coming, but you can choose not to pick up on them or follow them, to just let them come and let them go.  I was [...]

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