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The Unresolved Duel (opens the original)
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Madmen of Art Monday returns for week three of Passing the Baton: Legacies of Creative Patriarchy, applying the archetypes of Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly to two madmen of architecture.History is filled with examples of creative and intellectual “Madmen” whose bold achievements were followed by successors who challenged, contradicted or dismantled the values upon which those achievements had been built. Such transitions reveal more than changes in style; they expose shifts in id
Life's Bitters (opens the original)
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This week to ease life’s discomforts Tilde’s Mountain Kitchen turns to an ancient herbal art carried down through generations.Bitters came into my own practice less as an old-fashioned remedy than as part of learning how to live again in an unsettled body. During my long recovery from Lyme, digestion was one of the most difficult systems to bring back into balance, affected not only by illness but by the many treatments introduced in response to it. Within that larger recovery, bitters offered a
How Painting Became Freedom (opens the original)
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I am still moving slowly, struggling a bit with my health. This was mostly finished—I managed to add images and footnote to get this out today.In recent weeks, Art Movement Tuesday has remained close to Québec, following the ways artists respond when social, political and cultural conditions become unstable enough to demand a new language. Yet upheaval does not produce only one kind of answer. Some movements rupture, resist and refuse; others emerge when even rebellion no longer seems sufficient
Securing The Ground (opens the original)
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Owning The Pen 2.0 is a reboot of the series I began last year, with a clearer understanding of what independence actually means as the landscape shifts, yet again. It does not require abandoning publishers, periodicals, Substack, Medium,1 social media or any other community already capable of carrying our work toward readers. Historically, writers have used outside channels to reach existing audiences. Such access can be enormously useful without requiring dependence upon the means of reaching
The Mother of Modernism (opens the original)
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It is another road trip day for me on this Divine Feminine Friday. I’m on my way back to the Mountain for end of the growing season preparations. In the meantime, here’s some food for thought! This post is from a wonderful conversation we had on the Substack app through Notes last year. Now it is enhanced with images, more complete footnotes and bibliography.Who Is the Mother of Modernism?The question began as a provocation when I saw feature Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses, 1
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