Art-ologie Appreciation
If you've ever had a yard sale, then you know the difficulties of parting with nostalgia. Suddenly, that cracked coffee mug with the blue cornflower and the artist's signature on the bottom that you procured from a street vendor on a trip to Ibiza serves not as a container for coffee, but as a memory of the time that you proposed. You write on the tag a whopping five dollars.  more ... Outside the Ark
Artist Narrative In Her Own Words
When I was a kid my favorite book was a pop-up of Noah's Ark. My greatest fantasy was to live in an ark with my own family and my own personal zoo. I imagined the cold rain pounding outside against the ark's shutters, while inside the ark, all of us were safe and warm. One day my Sunday School teacher read to us from the Noah's Ark story. When she arrived at the part where the flood waters dry up, she held the book open to a picture of the sturdy, gleaming ark surrounded by the lush green trees and colorful plants, all under the beautiful rainbow in the sky. The entire class was entranced except for Joel, the boy sitting next to me. "Where are the bodies?" more...