The Better Angels… John Berger wrote in Ways of Seeing, “You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand, and you called the painting Vanity, thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own...
My sister-in-law, Elizabeth Whitney, LICSW (a very smart woman), recently wrote me an email. In it she wrote some thoughts on the concept of hope: I’m interested in the subject of hope – what it really is beneath the surface layer of optimism for the future. In some...
The Power of Invisibility in Art + Gender at The Harlow Gallery In Men Explain Things to Me author Rebecca Solnit describes going to a dinner at which she is lectured by the host, who she had just met, about a book that he had not yet read (although he had read the...
In 1996 I got punched in the face on the escalator of the 6 train at 51st St. As a woman rumbled past me, heading up the stairs she hooked my elbow – she turned and swung from above, with a closed fist covered with rings like brass knuckles. In an instant she cut the...
In the new year I had been thinking about the Victorians and their decoupage traditions…filling the void with sentiment and changing functionality into décor. I am interested in the way that they found the ability to combat subjugation with practice. My Mother died on...
The world shut down in March…some of the things that I did as the days stretched into April and I watched the buds form on the trees in the woods: I took up hiking I washed my windows I collaged dozens of works with little bits of paper I yearned for the residency in...