Pentimento by Catherine Moore
“Pentimento” by Catherine Moore She painted over his works because she felt he had spent too much time in his blue period. The disemboweled female forms were barely swathed in bolts of lapis atop ecru. Draped over in wide eyes afraid—primitive empties, effigies of sad spoils. The figures needed their horror broken....
Droom by Margaret Chula
“Droom” by Margaret Chula M.C. Escher wood engraving, 1935 The bishop reclines on tassled cushions hands crossed at his waist in sweet repose. A praying mantis straddles his chest. Legs, knobbled like rosary beads, knead the red fabric of his robes. Thorax and forelegs cast a shadow over the bishop’s trusting heart. In the great beyond, arches of the coliseum hold up the night sky. Venus and Jupiter shine out...
Studio Visit: Later by Susanna Lang
“Studio Visit: Later” by Susanna Lang Alice Berry What’s left—bobbins, scraps of fabric, reds and pumpkins in one bin, blues in another. A jacket, dark as its corner. I remember tea in a fairy tale harem splashed with glistening silks that...
People as Evidence by Lauren Camp
“People as Evidence” by Lauren Camp for Alice Neel Not so much the eyes but the middle of the gesture— early bloom, late wrinkle, the most multiple parts, nipple and fat roll. Leg and tangle and temper. It was that entrance to the center that...
Women, Windows by Lauren Rusk
“Women, Windows” by Lauren Rusk after Vermeer Light on a wall, a woman. Light— the pour of milk, her round forehead as she reads where he arranged her—each of those women— near a window to catch the glow, not look through. But to the women that...
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