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Habits gradually change the face of one’s life as time changes one’s physical face; & one does not know it.
Virginia Woolf
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“Works and Days” by Tanja Markus
In sum, this work is about: Inspired by the Bosch’s outer panels of “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” “Works and Days” transforms the depiction of the creation of the world into the metaphor of contemporary accomplishments of humanity, which, lobotomized by the principles of market mechanics, has lost its spirituality and its rituals.
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I thread a needle
hot from the flame
and carefully
stitch halves,
tiny pieces
to whole,
to completion.
I will not fade away.
“Seamstress” by Frankie Francis
“Still” by Dana Dirker
In sum, this work is about: This painting is for women survivors who are in the process of recovery. It is from a series of drawings and paintings that focuses on the woman in different situations of struggle, both within and around her. The titles of these works narrate the inner dialogue of the swimmer who, in her skillfulness and resilience, must choose the best stroke and technique to buffer danger. In this specific painting, the title “Still” refers to the motionless floating that she must bring forth to keep herself safe in deep water. It also speaks to the residue of a traumatic situation that is “still” with her.
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The melody, the mood, the moonshine. The dance, the stillness, the chaos of the city, the whispers of the country. Life, all of it.
Kacie Devaney
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The Q: Does your creative process have a rhythm like the waves?
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I became consciousness hatching from an egg,
a hairy ape swinging in a tree,
then something upright, familiar, a face
of a girl looking for clear agates in a forest,
and longing for a horse, a black horse
to take her far into an open field
where starlight falls like glitter,
where rock is rock in a serpentine river
and time skips like a stone.
“Before” by Terri Glass
You have to spread out as wide
as your body can stretch, until
you become your surroundings,
until the pulse of nature becomes
the psalm of your soul,
“Fawn” by Erin Rizzato Devlin
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“Expression of Woman’s Creativity and Freedom” by K. Srikala Ganapathy
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