Featured image: Picasso, Blind Minotaur Guided by a Girl in the Night, etching (1934). The New Year arrived this morning in Salt Lake City like a blank slate, a snow-whitened landscape whose underlying structure is only hinted at by a palimpsest of dendritic trees. Today is as pervaded with lightness as the winter solstice season […]
Featured image: Alice, illustration by Gianlucci Gambino, aka, Te Nia In the immediate aftermath of my dementia diagnosis twelve years ago (2011), it made sense to separate my then-still-comparatively-rational self from the disease and look at it from the outside. That is when (almost subconsciously) I created Doña Quixote, my demented alter ego, from whom […]
Lonely Girl Room 315, detail. Sculpture from Constance McBride’s The Lonely Girls project (2011-2014). My frequent failures in what used to be easy daily tasks constantly remind me that my days of still having some life-of-the-mind and relative independence are running out. No wonder, then, that I was deeply moved by Constant McBride’s Lonely Girls sculpture collection. The […]
Featured image, Rosa Verloop, nylon sculptures This is going to be a “woe is me” post about a topic that we usually keep firmly behind the bathroom door. Therefore, if you don’t want to hear about the degradation of my digestive system, get out now. If, however, you also have an annoying, embarrassing, or otherwise very […]
Why did the arrival of this package at our front door make me so angry? Because of what it looked like on the outside, I was angry enough not to want to open the box. These were my runaway THOUGHTS when I saw the images and words printed on it: Oh no, someone is […]
This post is Part II of my long goodbye to my forever-in-progress novel Last Pietà. Part I, my previous post, consisted of historical information about Michelangelo’s life, the stunning facts that intrigued me so much that I just had to write Last Pietà. It introduced the sculpture of my book’s title, on which the artist worked until […]