Continue Reading Demeanor, Depicted. “Art must be an integral part of the struggle. It can’t simply mirror what’s taking place. It must adapt itself to human…
Continue Reading Drought My heart is moved by all I cannot save:so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with thosewho age after…
Continue Reading Open Invitation For those of you in the PNW – please join us, would love to see you! Friderike Heuer and Ken Hochfeld, The Gorge Beckons: Change…
Continue Reading Endless Pigeons. Malia Jensen at The Reser “To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.” ~ Jean (Hans) Arp “Jours effeuillés: Poèmes,…
Continue Reading Green Colonialism History connects the dots of our identity, and our identity was all but obliterated. Our land was taken, our language was forbidden….
Continue Reading Green thoughts in a green shade. In the prison of his daysTeach the free man how to praise. On Auden’s grave marker, in Kirchstetten, Austria. *** Their Lonely Betters As I listened…
Continue Reading Musings on a hot day. Walk with me, in the wetlands around the Tualatin River, during almost 90 degrees at 10 am on a quiet Sunday morning….
Continue Reading Shape, and Shifting Too hot to write. So I borrow words and burrow in the archives to find the matching images. Have not yet made…
Continue Reading Taking stock of the body New work by Kate Simmons at the Alexander Gallery at CCC. British artist Helen Chadwick fought much of her life, a life cut short way too early, against society’s demands for idealized female…
Continue Reading Kitsch and Kunst – the Visual Representation of Consolation. “I can’t go on, I’ll go on.” — Samuel Beckett, “The Unnamable.” In a recent interview Rebecca Solnit talked about hope amid…
