“When there is no one else around to distract me I can see myself more clearly. It is just me, responding directly to the thing in front of me. It’s being able to explore the difference between thinking who I am and knowing who I am.” The simplest way for me to begin is to … Continue reading
Writer, what kind of words will you fetch to awkwardly describe what drawing can instead perfectly represent? Don’t bother with words, unless you are speaking to the blind…don’t mess with things that belong to the eyes. Don’t try to smuggle them as something belonging instead to the ears. You will always be overruled by the … Continue reading
Recently contributor Leslie Belloso was invited to give the commencement speech at Crisfield High School in Maryland. Her speech below contains more than just advice for high school seniors, it is a moving description of her life so far and the lessons she has learned living it. We create our destinies through the choices we make … Continue reading
By Leslie Belloso The radical contingency of the present. Cezanne was after it: “The world’s instant” that Cezanne wanted to paint, an instant long since passed away, is still thrown at us by his paintings,” says Merleau Ponty. So was Barnett Newman who painted about it and wrote “the sublime as being here and now…it is what dismantles … Continue reading
Quirky and genuinely humble Louis Escobedo with his yellow trucker cap may try to pass himself off as one, but don’t let his self portrait Truck Driver” fool you. He paints out of a quiet studio in rural Maryland eschewing associations, honors and fame (though he surfaced to accept the Gold Medal Award at the … Continue reading
