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Officially a Woman Writing Nature
Issue #41 of Sugar Mule is finally out!
Animal Images and the Image as Animal: Tricia Cline’s Exiles in Lower Utopia
I recently stumbled upon Tricia Cline’s porcelain sculptures (thank you, art pinners on Pinterest!). Her work has a quality that I tend to (mostly subconsciously) seek out and appreciate in all art forms — an otherworldliness, often lovely, but a little strange, unsettling, maybe creepy, though not in any particularly obvious way. Which is, incidentally, […]
Compassion and a Stevens Poem
My husband and I recently had a discussion/debate with a friend of ours who, on the subject of legislating compassion (or, more specifically, legislating in the name of compassion), pretty much said that without all of our elevated, civilized, moral compassion, we’d be “nothing more than animals.” While I’m a big proponent of compassion, I […]
The Quotable Henderson
Some of my favorite quotes from Saul Bellow’s “Henderson the Rain King”
Humility and Loneliness: The Art of Caspar David Friedrich
Thoughts on Caspar David Friedrich and his work
Dreamy and Torrential: The Art of JMW Turner
Notes on JMW Turner and his work
Appearances Are Deceiving
Nature proves yet again that what I think I see, and what I think I know, may not at all be the reality of any given situation.