Abstract art was once the bad boy of the art world. The juvenile delinquent of art history. It had rebellious, drunken outcast revolutionary origins. It no longer has the same growl
I recently heard someone confidently exclaim “Abstract Art is bad art made by bad artists” Ouch! I think everyone is entitled to their opinion, but when it is declared as
Some people are a little mistrustful of abstract art. Some people expect the painting to reflect or represent something. Some people want the painting to symbolize something. Or maybe to
Metamorphosis is a profound change, from one stage to the next, in the life of an organism, as from the caterpillar to the pupa and from the pupa to the
As a child I remember plucking petals from a daisy and holding buttercups under my chin. These were magical ways of learning something about myself or so I believed Later
What is the title of his painting I ask myself. I look at it and think–What have I created here in this work? What is going on with all the
0n the death of Seamus Heaney I am trying to write a poem because I am sad– and because summer is ending- and because a poet I love has died.
When I was a kid- my grade eight math teacher told our class about a mail-order scam where someone would put an ad in the classifieds–offering an ancient secret to becoming rich and famous. All you
“There are only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours, and God’s.” ~ Byron Katie Today, I had the urge to write about something that I was outraged about. I
I am working on my play again after a couple of months of avoiding it. I feel like I am standing in front of a house with no door– and
