I found your poem, Samuel Clemens
This is nice piece of handworking.
Found poem © C.L. Quigley
Credits due to Mark Twain: Roughing It, Volume II, Chapter VIII
On Malcolm, Martin, and That X-Men Analogy Thing
On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the activist, orator and the man once referred to in eulogy by the late Ossie Davis as “Our Shining Black Prince,” El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (most commonly known as Malcolm X), I quite foolishly decide to wade into that whole X-Men analogy thingy. Of course I’ve been warned. Of course I know better. But since when has that stopped me? So then, let’s do this thing.
And that supremely bad ass Malcolm & Magneto mash-up art you’re seeing, is courtesy of the amazing John Jennings and his 2012-2013 exhibit Black Kirby. If yuh dunno, now yuh know.
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On Malcolm, Martin and that X-Men Analogy Thing
Artist-to-Artist: advice for new creatives from some of the BEST (part 3)
LIFE of an artist. Struggle is ours not own: an anology of Artist to Artist.
Hello!
This is the last (and fullest) post in this little collection (read the previous two posts here & here).
I love asking other artists for advice and the perspective they offer. It’s like they’re seeing into my head and know exactly what I need to hear! I hope you’ll feel the same:
One of my favorite question of all time:
“Do you have any advice for artists just starting their art career?”
Understand that only you get to define success for yourself. No one else can do this. You get to decide how big or small a goal for your art/career.
If your aspiration is to be a full time artist though, and you aren’t independently wealthy, I would say first to understand how difficult it is.
Also, I would mention the fact that as a professional artist, you are signing up to be a business owner. I certainly…
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LightUp Cape Town.
LightUp Cape Town
Indian Festival
Points In Poetry dedication to Women
“She Unnames Them” — Ursula K. Le Guin
“She Unnames Them”
by
Ursula K. Le Guin
MOST of them accepted namelessness with the perfect indifference with which they had so long accepted and ignored their names. Whales and dolphins, seals and sea otters consented with particular alacrity, sliding into anonymity as into their element. A faction of yaks, however, protested. They said that “yak” sounded right, and that almost everyone who knew they existed called them that. Unlike the ubiquitous creatures such as rats and fleas, who had been called by hundreds or thousands of different names since Babel, the yaks could truly say, they said, that they had a name. They discussed the matter all summer. The councils of elderly females finally agreed that though the name might be useful to others it was so redundant from the yak point of view that they never spoke it themselves and hence might as well dispense with it. After…
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Ernie in Progress
Progress of painting # 5 and # 6 0f 6 (so far) inspired by angels and muppet from Sesame Street, Ernie.
Gabriel
Speaking Of Greece
Greece reminds me when I was reading Sophocles drama book “Oedipus the King”, Nice piece of artwork!!!
36 Hours in Athens
By JOANNA KAKISSIS
The city’s self-confidence and creativity are stirring again after years of tough press that defined Athens as a beleaguered capital.
This post on classics, referencing an earlier post on the same topic reminds us of our hinted promise to tell more about Raxa Collective’s recent scouting visit to Greece, and specifically about prospective project on one of the most fascinating of all the islands. We promise more on that soon.
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