Hopper light doesn’t protect, but neither does it isolate; in his mysterious paintings, it sometimes seems to me that the slightest movement—getting up off a bed, going out a door—would change not only the composition and the meanings we gladly ascribe to it, but the light, itself.
Blog Posts on Art
Water and a Shell: The Almost Forgotten Work of Elizabeth Eaton Burton
Wandering the lobby of the Mammoth Hotel in Yellowstone National Park last week, I came on a little fountain buried in an obscure corner.
My Week in Pictures
In June, I finally decided to learn how to use my new digital camera. It’s a small Sony Nex-7, which seems easy to use but was causing me a lot of frustration. I decided to sign up for a beginning digital photography workshop at Santa Fe Photographic Workshops a few blocks from where I live.
Finding What We Lost… Or Nearly.
This forgetting nearly happened to two of the cultural monuments in Spain that now seem central to the country and its history: Gaudi’s cathedral in Barcelona, and the Alhambra in Grenada.
Water… Cool, Clear Water
We seem particularly unable, here in the desert Southwest, to learn from these earlier techniques; there are no light-proof shades over the windows here in the middle of the day, no habit of closing early and opening late (which used to be the rule in the U.S. South), no planting of trees to provide crucial shade.
Queens, Kings… and Visionaries
Someone-a queen, a king, or a so-called Captain of Industry, our version-finds inspiration bursting out in bright colors in an unexpected corner: a peasant, an explorer, an architectural genius, and brings the essential power of money, wealth and prestige to force the bloom.
Something Changes in Me… Music and Revolution
Perhaps we no longer believe we can roar.
Are Boxcars Beautiful?
I wonder at times about the narrow definition I hold to for what is beautiful—or “beautiful,” to give it is usual ironic twist. This question becomes more pressing as we