Simply Take A Walk
Gina Williams’s photographs show us that sometimes walking the streets in our community is all it takes to spark rediscovery. … Continue readingSimply Take A Walk
Gina Williams’s photographs show us that sometimes walking the streets in our community is all it takes to spark rediscovery. … Continue readingSimply Take A Walk
A family trip to the museum reveals a secret about a woman’s ancestry in Rob Magnuson Smith’s chilling story. … Continue readingThe Headhunter’s Trumpet
Artist Eric Sloane painted rural scenes which bound together the sky and earth. Lynne Paris-Purtle’s new poem “Ars Fabrilis” shows us how this synergy can lift the bounds of time.
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Poet G.C. Waldrep reveals the raw truth just under history’s skin with this take on surrealist Edith Rimmington’s painting “The Decoy.”
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Rebecca Reynolds follows the trail of legends surrounding the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary.
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Objects passed through generations have the power to haunt and give hope. Laura Sommers’ lays a burden to rest in her personal essay “The Pink Vase.”
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Discarded shards find rebirth in the hands of an artist. Charles Bechtel’s textural compositions invite us to look at elements in a different light. … Continue readingThe Synergy of Fragments
by Jeanette Ronson – Edith Rimmington (1902-1988), an obscure painter, poet, and photographer, projects her commitment to the Surrealist movement of the early twentieth century in her painting “The Decoy” (1948). A decoy’s purpose is to lure a victim into a trap. Here, we have a human hand infused with
Continue readingRediscovered Stories: The Power to Transcend Logic is in the Hand of the Surrealist
by James Purtle – The Eric Sloane Museum in Kent, CT, is home to a remarkable collection of early American tools and artifacts uniquely curated to showcase their beauty and utility. Donated and created by artist and author Eric Sloane in 1969, the exhibit is like a personal invitation into
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by Rob McMahon – Rob Magnuson Smith’s piece, “The Headhunter’s Trumpet,” offers a glimpse into the world of New Guinean tribal practices. The piece focuses on a Papuan headhunter’s trumpet, an instrument created, carried, and played to display a tribe’s ferocity and brutality before a headhunting. A headhunter’s trumpet, carved
Continue readingRediscovered Stories: The Headhunter’s Chilling Blast