Tag: art

  • Ai Weiwei Asks Brooklyn: What Does Your #Activism Look Like?

    Ai Weiwei Asks Brooklyn: What Does Your #Activism Look Like?

    “What does your #activism look like?” Ai Weiwei asks us in his new art exhibit up at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, through August 10th, 2014. His question made me stop and think. As an author, my activism looks like the books I write, like Brindle 24 and Stream & Shale. I wrote these…

  • Natural Supernatural Love Poems

    Have you carried unfinished things around with you from place to place, and hoped to make something new out of them? This spring, looking at the two shelves of handwritten, typed, bound, loose and even tattered poems and drawings that I’ve carried from childhood through a dozen moves, I had to do something about it. And…

  • Art Healing Tragedy; Reflections from NYC

    I love art for the way it helps heals us after tragedy. When the sheer facts are overwhelming, creative avenues may open up to keep us from despair. Ten years ago when I was on the bus in Manhattan on my way to work, the unthinkable happened here. And in the aftermath, I was among those rushing…

  • No Apologies for Art

    I never apologize for anything I create. Do you? Products of the creative mind may offend, but my advice: never apologize. If I’ve created something then it came from somewhere. It came from me. Who can understand what lies inside of us? And if we cannot understand it, we are lucky at least to have…

  • Nature of Ruins

    I love the art that remains from ancient times, but never more than when it is in the open and partially covered by nature. The way people so long ago mirrored nature in creative works, and the continuity of living trees and flowers living around the ruins today seems beautiful to me. It is not…