Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts

Friday, April 5, 2024

Of Politics & Art by Norman Dubie

  

Of Politics & Art

by Norman Dubie

Norman Dubie

Here, on the farthest point of the peninsula
The winter storm
Off the Atlantic shook the schoolhouse.
Mrs. Whitimore, dying
Of tuberculosis, said it would be after dark
Before the snowplow and bus would reach us.

She read to us from Melville.

How in an almost calamitous moment
Of sea hunting
Some men in an open boat suddenly found themselves
At the still and protected center
Of a great herd of whales
Where all the females floated on their sides
While their young nursed there. The cold frightened whalers
Just stared into what they allowed
Was the ecstatic lapidary pond of a nursing cow's
One visible eyeball.
And they were at peace with themselves.

Today I listened to a woman say
That Melville might
Be taught in the next decade. Another woman asked, "And why not?"
The first responded, "Because there are
No women in his one novel."

And Mrs. Whitimore was now reading from the Psalms.
Coughing into her handkerchief. Snow above the windows.


There was a blue light on her face, breasts, and arms.
Sometimes a whole civilization can be dying
Peacefully in one young woman, in a small heated room
With thirty children
Rapt, confident and listening to the pure
God-rendering voice of a storm.

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Mahler—Son Borne of the Street Song BY JUAN FELIPE HERRERA

  Mahler—Son Borne of the Street Song

Inspired by the life of Gustav Mahler and his last symphony, No. 9 in D Major

in the darkness
in the exile—there is a sigh, a number 9
there is a son borne of the street song, the injured timpani red drum
there is a town,  Jihlava, a make-shift theatre &
rough-cut street dancers, there is a sky that welcomes him
his furious strings tasking the universe, his weaving of all things

the piccolo & the flute
oboes of furies tiny streams of burning slow breath
we wait in silence & face up
we notice the heavens the turbulence &
wild sharp strokes & pieces of banned color & banned voices
their outcast Jewish hymn takes us to the endless seas
unknown choruses unknown winds & collapsing worlds
we enter we follow we enter we halt we are halted
vanishing harmonies you walk through quadrants of space
music what is it one note encompasses everything
one oboe returns why
your life beginning your life almost ending then ending
what do you hear in this vastness this movement before you
unknown forces whirl violins & the dead
the director’s arms & hands sway shaking point dissolve
only still we stand now we only
left alone only Gustav Mahler lives on
by this bed this night this day this last cycle
falls into an ever returning descent of sound
a voice a voice do you hear it hear it

Saturday, October 8, 2022

Chacán-Pi

Deutsch: Chacán, auch Pi-Chacán bzw. Chacán-Pi, ist eine von dem peruanischen Künstler Fernando de la Jara geschaffene Skulptur.
English: Pi-Chacán (also known as Chacán-Pi) is a sculpture by the Peruvian artist Fernando de la Jara

  

Monday, August 29, 2022

Art

  


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Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Mental Health Awareness Month

 

United States has been observing Mental Health Awareness during the month of May since 1949. Each year, businesses, organizations, schools and individuals dedicate this month to acknowledge those effected by mental illness and present innovative ideas, events and programs that support the treatment and prevention of mental illness.

Many individuals that suffer from mental health symptoms have found that creating art can be used as a therapy and have very positive effects on their condition. A regular practice of creating art can be nurturing for relieving stress, increasing confidence and supporting general mental health wellness in all of us, not just those that struggle. The Zentangle Method is a simple and powerful way to access creativity. The Zentangle Method opens doorways to our creative abilities and the artist within each of us. Using simple steps and basic strokes, anyone can create beautiful images using the Zentangle Method.
 
This May we will be honoring Mental Health Awareness month through a series of blogs, newsletters, and videos. We will explore the ways in which our own Zentangle practice plays a role in our own mental health and well being. Whether it is the act of creating art or embracing the philosophies behind the method, the Zentangle Method is a powerful tool to have in our toolbox. In spring of 2020, Julie shared a blog, My Zentangle Tool Box. We thought this message is just as important today as it was just a few years ago. Join us as we look back on these thoughts and ideas and (hint) we may be giving away a new Zentangle MantraBand!
To further kick off this month, we are going back to last May (2021) and Zentangle Project Pack No. 14. This project pack was designed to highlight the importance of art and creativity in mental health and wellness. In this series, we share the Zentangle Method as an option for accessing the artist within. If you tangled along with us the first time around, we invite you to join us again and perhaps use our ideas and lessons as seeds of inspiration for new ideas. If this is your first exploration of this project pack, we can’t wait to see what you create.
You can watch all of the Zentangle Project Pack No. 14 videos for free here. You can purchase PP14 materials here or follow along with whatever you have at home!
 
We are looking forward to the stories we will share and conversations that we will have over the next few weeks.

Thank you all for joining us!

Sunday, July 19, 2020

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