Tag: Art
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Kevin Raines: Painting Home
Birthday best to Kevin Raines (and lots of gratitude for bringing the wilderness inside our home while expanding our notion of homeness!)
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Creative Crop Rotation
In high school I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell. It’s safe to say that I was a bit of an outlier when it came to my eclectic music tastes. New England boarding school in the late 1980s, all boys scholar-athlete paradigm, etc. I tried to infect my friends with an appreciation for Joni’s…
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Leisure Time: Top 5
What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time? Work and leisure are less clearly delineated for me than I suspect they are for others. Less binary, more overlapping. Sure, there have been plenty of unleisurely stretches of work throughout my life, but the sense of accomplishment and discipline and investment transcends this overly…
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Framing an Icon
This afternoon I return to a recurring theme: framing (literal and figurative). Whether framing an icon like the quintessential Adirondack chair, local vintage artifacts, or Rosslyn’s buildings and grounds, composing a structural context, framework, or enclosure for supporting or enclosing intrigues me. I’m moved to contemplate the many ways framing structures, directs focus, and defines.…
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Porosity & Permeability
Porosity and permeability. Words. Ideas. Aesthetics. Biases. So many opportunities to mis-listen. Misinterpret. Assume… We volley language and visions without ever knowing whether or not we perceive the same boundaries. The same winning. And losing. Sometimes an image, less answer than visual poem, is the only way. Other times a poem-poem, less answer than question,…
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Mary Wade Rock Art
Mary Wade’s Essex renderings are legendary. Her rock painting of Rosslyn’s boathouse depicts Rosslyn’s boathouse as viewed from the Essex-Charlotte ferry dock, an enterprise originally owned by her grandfather, if memory serves. This gift from Mary immediately became a favorite in our collection of her Rosslyn inspired creations. This certainly isn’t my first Mary Wade…
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More Real than Realism
What, you ask, is more real than realism? Perhaps nothing. Or, perhaps plenty. Poetry, for example. Also art, stories, and so many other creative and curatorial initiatives. “Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.” —…
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Brutalist Boathouse
This past summer, our friend, Teel, visited us at Rosslyn. Her energy and unique perspective made for plenty of indelible memories, but she recently added another visual chapter to her Rosslyn legacy. For Susan’s birthday, she painted and gifted her this potent painting, a brutalist boathouse rendering as captivating as its subject. Originating in (and…
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Boathouse Rainbow
I’d been working on a different blog post to share with you today when this enchanting snapshot appeared on my phone. So I’m bumping “Whisper on Time” until tomorrow (I hope it’ll be worth the wait!), and showcasing this spirit-lifting boathouse rainbow photo instead. Just came off the ferry and this very bright rainbow happened!…
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Riley & Icehouse
This evening we’ll glance briefly, obliquely on art, memory, nostalgia, sentimentality, visual narrative, and letting go. First, I’d like to praise artist Annette Gurdo (www.annettegurdo.com) for this beautifully rendered, personally poignant portrait or the Riley in front of Rosslyn’s barns. Thank you, Annie! I will return to the artist and her art soon, but for…