Before social media created the forum which allowed the hijacking of the word “storyteller” as a synonym for bloggers and marketers it was indeed a prestigious art form.
What I share below is from an excerpt to a dear friend and author, over 8 months ago.
I think I am ready to discuss this as I understand it. We are all storytellers. We live our lives in and through stories. At the lowest level of consciousness this is gossip and at another form it can be “motivational speaking,” although for the intellectually evolved such speaking may not yield many new results. We tell stories when we come home to our significant other ( if we have ... read more »
Tagged art, authors, process of writing, social media, story
“Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they’re born with a song of their own, an innate riff that happens to be one of the most versatile of all ornithological expressions, mocking birds aren’t content to merely play the hand that is dealt them. Like all artists, they are out to rearrange reality. Innovative, willful, daring, not bound by the rules to which others may blindly adhere, the mockingbird collects snatches of birdsong from this tree and that field, appropriates them, places them in new and unexpected contexts, recreates the world from the world. For example, a mockingbird in South Carolina was heard to blend the songs of thirty-two ... read more »
Tagged art, bill viola, nyc, photos, st.john's cathedral, upperwestside, water
Still Sundays
October 9th.
Filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky on “self-existing magic of things” and more. Your talent is a body. Marc Jacobs on innovation.
I find myself intellectually incapable to accept any of the etymologies offered behind “Indian Summer” and google’s curation of history doesn’t satisfy.
October is a solid indigo night, made for returning and leaving at the same time.
Autumn in New York is the muse for so many jazz compositions because only music can capture an indigo night.
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Yesterday I saw a film by Nathaniel Dorsky who has been making and exhibiting films within the avant-garde tradition since 1964. His works have bee shown internationally in museums and theatres ... read more »
Tagged art, choices, life, nathaniel dorsky, process of writing, questions, relating, social media, twitter, words, yoga
Fountain, 2011 by an amazingly inspiring artist Winn Rea.
Plastic Strips Hanging Down
Value of Water Exhibition at St. John’s Cathedral.
There were lots of mediums through which artists participated. I thought this one was very cool given so much plastic is wasted for water bottles. There were others works by Winn Rea at the Cathedral but this was the best one I captured to share. You can read more about her here.
I will aslo be contacting Art for Water. They had some amazing art and words to share as well.
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Tagged art, beauty, earth, nyc, photos, st.john's cathedral, upperwestside, water, Winn Rea
From Still Sundays:
On Friday evening I visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art and was mesmerized by this amazing sculpture. I am sure most people who visit there often are quite used to it and hence could and couldn’t understand my state of awe. I took many photos and I felt none captured how I was actually feeling when I saw it. I gave up and in my silence contemplated why I was so drawn to it. I thought about it rest of the night and then while listening to a group of percussion drummers outside an art gallery in downtown Philly it finally clicked. That sculpture is precisely how I feel after I ... read more »
Tagged art, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, beauty, philly, photography, photos, sculpture, seekfindseek, words, writing
