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Ritual of Enchantment: Human Clay

One of the most venerable functions of art is to transform the environment, to create a sacred space or a magical moment, to inspire the imagination or to open the mind to contemplate mysteries.  This may be the impulse behind the painted caves of the Ice Age, and it is why places to pray and [...]

A Trio of Birthdays

1. This week, on March 15, Drawing Life turns three years old. 2. Minerva Durham’s Spring Studio, New York’s busy basement of figure drawing and one of the forges of my creative life, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this month. 3. On the 12th, my brother Frank Hatt is celebrating another one of those decade birthdays. [...]

In the Flow

A drawing or painting is an object, an arrangement of marks on a surface, inert and mute.  So what do we mean when we speak of a picture having dynamism or tension, energy or lyricism?  There could be multiple factors.  Movement may be pictorially implied.  Shapes and colors may be arranged in ways that suggest [...]

Dancing/Drawing Performance

On Saturday, February 18, I was drawing as part of this performance by one of my longtime collaborators, Kayoko Nakajima.  Kayoko is a dancer and a deep student of the anatomy of movement.  Here are all the details:  ”ARt Seeds to ARt Sprouts Project 2012″ Concept: Kayoko Nakajima Improvisational/Contact Improvisational Dance: Kayoko Nakajima, Carly Czach [...]

Form as Energy

The Center for Remembering and Sharing, or CRS, is an organization devoted to supporting and teaching healing arts and creative arts.  Their studios near Union Square in Manhattan host dance and yoga classes, bodywork sessions, film screenings, performances (music, dance and theater), and meditation and energy healing circles.  I got involved with CRS several years [...]

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