Art and Photography
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New Digital Series: Thru the Net
For the past few months I’ve been reading Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time with a friend. What’s fascinated me is how revolutionary his idea of being-in-the-world really is—not just vis-à-vis the philosophical tradition but even now, both philosophically and in our “everyday world” assumptions. I’ve begun a digital series called “thru the net” that explores…
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‘Convergence’
Very cool. DavidsonNews.net/CorneliusNews.net has an article about the group exhibition ‘Convergence,’ which opens tomorrow at Brick Row gallery. Brick Row chose four artists from the Small Works Invitational for this show. I feel incredibly honored to be one of them. Opening Reception is 6-9 p.m. Check it out! Here’s the Facebook Invitation.
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End of the Year issue of Creative Thresholds ROCKS!
The last issue of CT for the year–and the last issue before going to a twice-monthly format–ROCKED! Michael Dickins explores the blunting of awareness and empathy by our mass media in Michael Dickins: PreOccupied. J. Adam McGalliard works the layers of reality in “Projections“: “The projected image works as a double-edged sword. It can starkly…
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Happy Birthday to Creative Thresholds!
A big “Happy Birthday!” to arts and literary blog Creative Thresholds, which celebrated its first year at the end of last month. The anniversary issue was fantastic–poetry, collage, painting, drawing, and photography from an international cast of contributors. Swiss artist Verena Baumann enchants with painting, photography, and drawing. Check out Works by Verena Baumann. Prolific poet…
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The Light Inside
A couple of years ago, I was playing with my point and shoot camera, bored with the shots I’d been taking. I was looking around in the yard for another possibility when I saw the heat pump and heard it whirring away. What if I put my camera up to the air grille? What resulted…
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The Latest Creative Thresholds
I’m excited about the latest Creative Thresholds. Screenwriter and graphic novelist G.A. Gallas shares pages from her graphic novel The Poet and the Flea, an ode to William Blake. My nerd self totally swoons over this. Michi Meko. Flux 2013. Atlanta. One heck of a performance. Christopher Hutchinson discusses why it’s so good in “Postcolonial…
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Phoneography Challenge: Nature. Tropical Storm Karen and the Cornfields
I hadn’t planned to participate in the Phoneography challenge this week, but as I was driving home today the remnants of Tropical Storm Karen drifting over harvested cornfields was too tempting not to try and capture.
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The Latest Creative Thresholds
Photography, flash fiction, experimental writing, critique, and iPad drawings: the latest Creative Thresholds. Go behind the scenes of photographer J. Christopher Matyjasik’s latest project: dixie’s s-bahn. See the continuation of Daniel Boscaljon’s and my collaboration in confession: the nature of my crime. Read our new columnist Christopher Hutchinson’s look at Rashid Johnson’s work in Postcolonial Thoughts: Afrofuturist Rashid…
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