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Is death another life?
I have been photographing "Two Trees" in all four seasons on Mount Pollux, Amherst Massachusetts for over 20 years. Two Trees were stalwarts: sturdy, reliable sources of beauty and cooling shade, together on a mountain overlooking the valley below. I met a woman, we fell in love and she showed me this sacred space for the first time. Those days were magic.
A few years ago, after being diagnosed with a debilitating disease, she took her own life by jumping off of the Mount Hope Bridge. She didn't want to stay, so she left. I like to think that is the way of things with Two Trees. Now there is One Tree. Perhaps a reminder the 'terrible events of life are great eye-openers. They force us to learn that which it is wholesome for us to know, but which habitually we try to ignore — namely, that really we have no claim on a long life; that we are each of us liable to be called off at any moment, and that the main point is not how long we live, but with what meaning we fill the short allotted span — for short it is at best.'
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
~Robert Frost
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| 6/26/18
How do you support your local Merman AND help raise money for a children's playground?
By clicking here and ordering a Wickford MERMAN Calendar of course!
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| 6/25/18
THIS UNIQUELY EXPERIENTIAL EVENT IS 32ND IN A SERIES OF WONDERFUL PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS. TOGETHER WE ARE GROWING A COMMUNITY OF SUPPORTIVE AND TALENTED ARTISTS OF ALL SKILL LEVELS WHO CONNECT THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY AND A LOVE OF ART. Description Creating Your Vision Photography Workshop David Lee Black Studios Attleboro Arts Museum Details: 32nd in a series of a wonderful growing community of supportive and talented artists of all skill levels who connect through photography and this unique experiential event. This event is open to all skill levels of photography. We are very fortunate to have professional ballet dancer Emily Baker of Island Moving Company, Newport's contemporary ballet company, modeling and interacting in the magnificent Attleboro Arts Museum's National Juried Exhibition, "Three"! We are very pleased to announce that Miss Hayley Belle Hite will be our second model along with Emily Baker! Hayley is 'almost 8 years old' and serendipitously modeled for a few moments at the Temple To Music event last month. She is a delight to work with! "Hayley has been dancing at Rosemary's School of Dance Education for 6 years. She has competed in many Dance competitions and has won several awards. Her dream is to someday be the Sugar Plum fairy in a production of the Nutcracker." We will meet and greet at 10:30 am. The event runs from 11am - 1pm. Directions: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/''/Attleboro+Arts+Museum,+86+Park+St,+Attleboro,+MA+02703/@41.9442225,-71.3505246,12z/data=!4m8!4m7!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x89e460b172b9a095:0x7d97e71ebd98ad73!2m2!1d-71.2804847!2d41.9442438MBTA Commuter Line: Take the Providence/Stoughton Commuter Line train to Attleboro Station. The Attleboro Arts Museum is conveniently located a few blocks away from the Station (just a 10 minute stroll to the Museum). http://attleboroartsmuseum.orgThere will also be plenty of helpful guidance and suggestions to enhance your passion for artful photography. Feel free to invite your friends or share this invite! What to bring: Camera Your creativity and open mind Cost: $50 (cash or check) Parking lot is ample and free. |
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| 6/23/18
"We have all hurt someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. We have all loved someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. it is an intrinsic human trait, and a deep responsibility, I think, to be an organ and a blade. But, learning to forgive ourselves and others because we have not chosen wisely is what makes us most human. We make horrible mistakes. It's how we learn. We breathe love. It's how we learn. And it is inevitable."
~Nayyira Waheed |
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| 6/22/18
“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.”
~Issac Newton |
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| 6/20/18
“Descendant . . .”
24” x 22”
Photography
Currently on exhibition:
Morini Gallery
888 South Main Street
Mansfield, Massachusetts
"All things that have form eventually decay but I have always been captivated by our connection to past, present and future. This photograph was made on the back wall of St. Brigid’s Church, County Clare, Ireland. My artist friend David Lang was inside delivering a watercolor and I decided to explore the ancient cemetery behind the church. The rare warmth of the setting sun was casting vanishing light through the Celtic gravestones and revealed the question…
What exactly is this dream between birth and dying?" |
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| 6/19/18
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| 6/18/18
Paris is beautiful. I stood at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower and looked up . . .There are very few times in my life I've felt so small. Such steel and lace! Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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| 6/14/18
"Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires."
~James Joyce - Ulysses |
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| 6/14/18
Some of my fellow artists at Galatea Fine Art have a wonderful show currently at the gallery. Check it out! "Every generation invents a new artistic technique or medium to create new ways to express the concepts, thoughts, and feelings of the age. Just as the painter's brush is an extension of their hand, so the computer is the extension of the creative mind." Gloria King Merritt, Curator/Artist In this exhibition, three experienced digital new media artists use a variety of techniques to interact with technology in their creative process. Each of these artists has substantial resumes and has experience in other fields and traditional techniques, and yet, has chosen to focus on cutting edge processes that have only become possible with the birth of the new millennium." |
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6/13/18I have been blessed to work with amazing talent in my photography career and this season is no exception. There is a Wonderful collaborative project in the works with Galatea Fine Art painter and sculptor, Mathew Peake, professional ballet dancers, Janelle Gilchrist and Alan Oscar Alberto that I am very proud to be a part of! The project is being created in the quiet wilds of rural Vermont and will then ripple out into the larger artful community. The results will be literally out of the box! |
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6/12/18"Harold: You sure have a way with people. Maude: Well, they're my species!"
~Harold and Maude
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| 6/11/18
“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.”
~James Baldwin
Thinking of words and their perceived meaning. Perhaps the word "sensual" is a tree with many branches, the word "sexual" is only one of its branches, while other branches could include things like great food, striking art, visually compelling film, literature, poetry, beautiful music and other artful luxuries that make our spirits soar. This photograph, tentatively titled, "Soft" is reminds me of such words and the layers of meaning we sift through trying to make sense of our human condition. |
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| 6/5/18
“The aim of a PhD's to ensure that no one, including your advisor, understands what you're doing after the first couple of years.”
~China Mieville |
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| 6/4/18
How hard can it be to juggle a newborn, teach full time, play clarinet in a street band, run a household, and earn your Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience from Brown University? My bandmate Torrey Truszkowski makes it look easy with beauty and grace. Congratulations my friend!
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| 6/1/18
Once again this sculpture piece is on the move from the Providence Biltmore!
“SILENTLY AND LIGHT OF FOOT”
Such are the ways of things with dance and light.
A leap of faith, weightlessly, light on ones feet into the unknown.
“SILENTLY AND LIGHT OF FOOT” is a piece created from used but beloved pointe shoes from the Island Moving Company ballet dancers of Newport, RI and a pre-civil war era shoe rack from one of Natick’s oldest mills. The marriage of the two beautiful objects reflect a subtle story of light of foot from times that were, time that is and time that will be
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