Continue Reading Sunday Morning, an accounting My thoughts have a tendency to wander through weird pathways – wouldn’t you know it, dear reader. Here is a map of…
Continue Reading Your choice: You have a number of options interpreting today’s photographs. A) This is what my brain looks like when trying to write not one…
Continue Reading I will greet the Sun again: Shirin Neshat at The Broad. There could not have been a better introduction to Iranian-born, US artist Shirin Neshat than watching one of her videos, Rapture (1999)…
Continue Reading Botanical Numbers 207 acres, 120 of them filled with 16 themed gardens. 15.000 different varieties of plants. $25 entrance fee. 6 head gardeners, 1200…
Continue Reading Art on the Road: Käthe Kollwitz: Prints, Process, Politics Husband: “You really are drawn to dark art, aren’t you? Who is she?” Me: “What do you mean? We have a print…
Continue Reading SoCal Adventures Last week I visited Los Angeles for the first time ever. It was a fascinating experience, and so jam-packed during the 2.5…
Continue Reading From word to image Earlier this week I wrote about metaphors as a subtle way of manipulating people into supporting or refusing certain actions. Today, for…
Continue Reading Liar, liar…. Now why do you immediately assume I refer to a certain politician who shall remain nameless? Am I that predictable? No, I want…
Continue Reading Give those verbs a rest! Yesterday I tried to spell out that language does influence thought, although not in the direct, unchangeable way that anthropologists like Sapir…
Continue Reading Carnelian? Cornelian? Which shall it be? … a shimmering mass of cornelian leaves, dripping and moist with the rain. — Agnes Newton Keith, The Land Below the Wind, 1939 If you…
