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These drawings are for you, Vincent

Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings, well known for their colourful and convoluted renditions of people and places were accompanied by equivalently striking drawings that can now be considered as so many studies, particularly of trees, expressive of the human condition lived as shared destiny. In my interpretations of the following three original drawings by Van Gogh, …

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When May light calls … a photographic essay on ‘being there’

The first of May is the feast of the lily of the valley in France, in honor of all lovers, when flower peddlers at every street corner will offer them for free to passing couples. In my city the air has turned mellow and the shadows are sharper calling for one to go out and …

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Chromatic variations on the side of life…

…against war and pandemic This post may come as a surprise since graphically expressive work is not a mainstay of mine, except that the contextual circumstances of war and pandemic sent me searching for what emotional support colour can provide. My party pris is of course that formal design can communicate through association with certain …

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Imagining Out of Chance Associations

The approach to this series of collages starts with the combination of a solid coloured square background overlaid with a formal “embryo” chosen subjectively from a pile of coloured paper left over cut-ups. From that point on the imagined development of the collage was to be guided by formal and narrative associations subjectively made.   …

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The Fundamental Reasons Many Creatives End Up with Addiction

The struggle of creative people with addiction is a well-documented phenomenon, but what are the fundamental reasons for this connection? Find out more, here… Creative people, especially celebrities, often find themselves addicted to drugs. We’ve all seen innocent creatives become famous, get addicted to drugs, and die at a tragically young age. The infamous 27 …

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Poets on Craft: Jordan Smith and Alexis Rhone Fancher

When I was a community college student in Long Beach, California, I browsed the library catalogue looking for books containing interviews with famous writers and poets. I was particularly interested in craft—i.e. how writers and poets approach their work, how they start, maintain momentum, and conclude their stories or poems. Now some thirty years later, …

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Living Art Conversations with Rebecca Robinson

Her artworks are illustrious, her paintings carry dignity of life. Rebecca Robinson bravely wields her weapons, a pencil and a brush, to communicate life messages, to speak positive change and to heal communities from daily life traumas. Her artistic prowess tripled with maturity and exuberance mesmerizes her audience, her readers and other communities’ home abroad. …

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Talking Poetry: Nsah Mala, An African Poet-Patriot

CONSTIMOCRAZY is a story of Africa weaved by an African poet-patriot, a slinger wielding the spear, his pen, against treachery perpetrated by history and its cruelty. The same pen wielder rebukes Africa for frying its own beauty, dignity and morality in copper-roasting furnaces of disgrace and despotism. The African poet-patriot traverses with us around, from …

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