Nadia Daniels-Moehle
As a child, my house was full of maps–on the walls, tucked into folders, printed onto pillows. I would run my little fingers over them, connecting place to place, but I always preferred to navigate by imagination. I would begin with the empty space just behind my eyelids. My imagination fleshed out the world around…
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Quentin Crisp: Morning Talking, Step Sitting Graphite and watercolor on paper Begin with the purple hat: a wide brim, tilted at a rakish angle. After the hat, the face, a face removed from culture’s unaware noise, culture’s incessant noise. A face of elegance, poised in a moment of peace, a face rising itself away and…
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Inter-Planetary part 2* Acrylic on canvas “The cure for loneliness is solitude.” –Marianne Moore My inspiration for the Inter-Planetary series comes from the increasing complexity of our internal lives. Lives that could be called solitude or loneliness or maybe richness. As I painted, picking up where I left off, I began listening to Helen Macdonald’s…
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Protect and Border and Greet: Inspired by Solitude and Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet Gouache and ink on paper Poetry can transport us to moments, feelings, and human experiences. Poetry can condense great vastnesses into something palatable and, perhaps, even relatable. Poet Rainer Maria Rilke‘s Letters to a Young Poet has continuously nurtured my inspiration.…
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