HeyJaredThe Solace Project
Art and Nature change my mind. We’ll reckon with America, talking about paintings that capture complex stories of the past. I find solace in close looking, rethinking, revealing early America. Listen in. carriereborabarratt.substack.com
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As a child, I learned history by arranging and rearranging little figures. As a curator, I learned history by arranging and rearranging works of art in galleries. This week, I am packing my studio in Putnam Valley, New York, the last part of the move to Chicago. I have been looking again at my collection of tiny US presidents. Look As a little girl, I loved this set of US president figurines, Washington through Johnson. My Uncle John collected them in the 1960s, one tiny dude with each full tank
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The Solace Project Looking Closely A practice of attention and grace Today my practice of looking and paying attention takes me from deer to squirrel, allowing me to think again about a particular painting of a boy by the American painter John Singleton Copley, one that I spent a tons of time on long ago and haven’t thought about for just as long. Look Let’s start with the deer. In a “who gets to do this?” moment, I recently went on a retreat to to Nara, Japan. I watched deer in the park, in the
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