Day 176

Lookinglass: A Study Inspired by Käthe Kollwitz’s “Death Grabbing at a Group of Children” Charcoal on paper  And I think art impacts culture by defying culture, by simply handing culture a mirror. I adapted this piece from an essay I wrote for the final of MoMA’s Coursera Massive Online Open Courseware (MOOC) Modern Art &…

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Day 140

 Eye in the Sky Found in Darkness: Inspired by Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” Acrylic on canvas From a life of observation, I’ve noticed that much of life is rooted in polarizations, in binaries: woman/man, right/wrong, us/them, on/off, you/me, night/day. And we, as people, get so caught up in one side or another that we…

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