Archive for June, 2008
Finding the Artist Inside
Monday, June 30th, 2008The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
-Francis Bacon
I attended the River Arts District Studio Show recently in Asheville, North Carolina. In an old warehouse area on the French Broad River that’s been converted to artists’ studios, and for two weekends a year, the artists display their hearts and souls on [...]
MASQUERADE: WHAT IS YOUR MASK?
Monday, June 23rd, 2008I’ve just returned from New Orleans — the city of masks and disguise and carnivale. Along with museum curators, teachers, collectors and designers, I attended the annual symposium of the Costume Society of America.
Our delightful keynote speaker from New Zealand, James Acheson (costume designer for films such as The Last Emperor, Dangerous [...]
FRAGRANCE & CONNECTION
Thursday, June 12th, 2008I love how a certain scent can bring a sweet distant memory into focus. On a walk the other morning, the smell of honeysuckle took me on a childhood journey of adventure with my father. I remembered how we would pick armloads of wildflowers in the piney woods of our Alabama farm, and then surprise [...]
A SOFT-FOCUS WORLD
Monday, June 2nd, 2008We live in a world where we tend to “hard focus” most of our waking time: concentrating, figuring things out, trying to remember a myriad of facts and details — over-using the thinking mind. Sound familiar?
Resting the eyes is one way to have a quick and relaxing “refreshment of ease.” By closing out the visual [...]