From Woman in the Dunes (Photo: Cinescope) We are living through one of those eras when the political spills profusely into the personal. Up to our hips in toxic Trump floodwaters, the landscape of daily life has been transformed. I keep thinking of Hiroshi Teshigahara‘s 1964 iconic film, Woman in the Dunes, and its interminable […]
Month: March 2017
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Clew Takes on A Life of Its Own
Photo: Stacey Durand Clew opened at the Lamont Gallery on January 20. Since that time the gallery has hosted a variety of events including meditations, dance performances, theatrical readings, beadmaking workshops, and a class of curious kindergarteners. It was our collective intention (Todd Hearon, Jung Mi Lee, Lauren O’Neal, Jon Sakata and me) to bring […]
The We That is Me
Studio window, South Boston When I was growing up, neuroscience believed that the human brain develops during a critical period in early childhood and then remains relatively unchanged. The scientific consensus has now changed. Neuroplasticity is the new norm, the belief that human brains continue to form and change throughout the course of a life. […]
Getting a Clew: Review in Artscope Magazine
Note: The following review, reproduced here by permission, appeared in Artscope Magazine. Thank you to Linda Chestney for connecting with our vision and then bringing it so evocatively into words. The show is at the Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy, 11 Tan Lane, Exeter New Hampshire. It runs through April 15. Deborah Barlow, Vapeerine […]
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The Wheel Inside the Wheel
Adam Gopnik‘s recent piece in the New Yorker codifies the suspicions many of us have been sharing with each other: “We are living in the Matrix, and something has gone wrong with the controllers…The people or machines or aliens who are supposed to be running our lives are having some kind of breakdown. There’s a […]