On the set of Wild, at American Repertory Theater (Photo: Maggie Hall-Nile Scott Studios) Most of the thinkers I follow closely are actively exploring alternative models, ones that can impact our ability to continue as a species on this planet. That search for a change is summed up by Daniel Schmachtenberger: Rather than just iterative […]
The landscape of our lives right now—which includes the physical, emotional, social, spiritual and the intellectual—feels increasingly less like a scape of solidity and more like a fluid, undetermined and still evolving one. But whenever terrain goes through a transition, something new shows up, invariably. As we become seasoned pandemicists (albeit reluctantly,) we are learning […]
Sunset over Picacho, by Scout Dunbar The latest Pell Lucy online exhibit can now be viewed on Artsy: Indelibles. The show features work by the following artists: Tracey Adams, Deborah Barlow, Kay Canavino, Mi-Jin Chun, Silva DeMarchi, Scout Dunbar, Tina Feingold, Lea Feinstein, Karen Fitzgerald, Lynette Haggard, Joseph Hayes, Joanne Lefrak, Eve Leonard, Denise Manseau, […]
The light in San Francisco in January can be incomprehensibly warm and golden. My winter-lashed New England self was basking in its late afternoon glow as I sat with a friend in a lush Marina garden. Bliss. Then, in an instant, my eyesight went skiwampus. That was 2018. After a lot of medical head scratching, […]
Some proclivities are sui generis, perennially present as a life unfolds. That is the sense I get when George Saunders expresses the discomfort he still feels about his childhood failure to befriend a lonely girl in his neighborhood. For Saunders, gifted author and teacher, kindness and humility are built in. I have a primordial proclivity […]
Star Guide, by Denise Manseau. This woodblock print was purchased by Alexis Carey Lawrence at the last Fair Share Art Auction in October 2020. As we will be relying upon our scientists, in this darkest dream, so too will we be relying on our artists: now, as well as afterward. There is a great need […]
Above: Microscape Series (River Poem #2) by Taney Roniger. . At the beginning of the year I quoted from Rebecca Solnit’s recent book, Whose Story Is This? We are building something immense together that, though invisible and immaterial, is a structure, one we reside within—or, rather, many overlapping structures…Though there are individual voices and people […]
Above: Microscape Series (River Poem, #2,) by Taney Roniger. Scanned graphite drawings digitally printed with piezography inks . . At the beginning of the year I quoted from Rebecca Solnit’s recent book, Whose Story Is This? We are building something immense together that, though invisible and immaterial, is a structure, one we reside within—or, rather, […]
John Berger described drawing as something done “not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination.” For so many of us who write, compose, paint or draw, Berger’s sentence brings to mind familiar experiences: Starting with something we see that we want to make comprehensible […]
Art’s political power derives…from having no pragmatic application. It can’t fix the world…It stands for itself, it confronts our imagination and our intellect, and so it shapes our capacities as free citizens…If I seek out art in a time of national catastrophe…it’s because I need to be reminded what to live for. Jason Farago, art […]