Features and Essays, Spring 2019 |
In a bleak, empty American Legion hall on the edge of downtown Waterville, an unseen rock band is rehearsing. It is a rather uninspiring space, but printmaker Elizabeth Jabar and photographer Sean Alonzo Harris are busy setting up their studios here. Two of the most...
Features and Essays, Spring 2019 |
There have been hundreds of journalists murdered in the modern era. What makes the Kashoggi murder any more significant? In the experiment that is our corporate democracy, this must now be the first time that a leader of our country has publicly shrugged his...
Features and Essays, Spring 2019 |
As a child, I enjoyed playing with ColorForms, those flat, rubber figures that stick to landscape scenes. Paper dolls were also a favorite. I worked out my feelings this way, manipulating figures on an imaginary stage. Since I was shy and anxious, I enjoyed...
Features and Essays, Spring 2019 |
above: Gray, “Waiting Room”, papier-mâché, acrylic, oil paintings, needlepoint, paper, fabric, yarn, wood, etc., 16x2x10 feet, 2018 8 Oak Drive is not only a source of endless inspiration for me, but it has been the home of my grandmother, Valerija Kuceris since 1977....
Features and Essays, Spring 2019 |
“There are places I remember.” –John Lennon In 1954, the year I was born, in Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, my parents bought what had been a chicken farm in Water Mill on Long Island. The farm had been owned by the Balserus family; next door were the...
Features and Essays, Spring 2019 |
An essay written for the Artists talk “Who Do You Love?” at the CMCA Biennial 2018-19 Samuel Palmer- Romantic Visionary born in 1805 died 1881, (before the 20th century) The first time I saw the works of Samuel Palmer, I was an exchange student at...
