The world is filled with the glamour of dust; dust brought together to gleam and flicker, to waft sweet fragrances, dust sending songs down the wind. There is a saying that reminds us our own bodies and selves are made from dust, and to it we will return. Boisterous, clamoring, exuberant, flagrant; this dust gaining […]
Over the past weeks I’ve been reading about the other-than-human; a planetary intelligence that sweeps us into its net along with our fellow Earth inhabitants. Scientists are pursuing deeper understandings about how this intelligence works, and what solidarity with it might mean. Click to open the newsletter where this idea is explored in greater depth.
The language of poetry offers an inroad to many things. Most often, it is the door of the imagination that poetry opens. My current newsletter offers a poem with this shimmering doorway accessible to everyone. Click to read on. https://mailchi.mp/fitzgeraldart/with-green-7273433
When the sun glints off all the new green growth, there is an elemental sparkling only apparent in June. It is a kind of “reckless plenitude,” (Stacie Cassarino wrote in “Summer Solstice.”) It is “Light that in its excess has become something else.” (“Summer Solstice,” by Donna Kane.) It is ….light’s greattriumph (Joseph Stroud wrote in “Night
Please join us! Alison Cuomo and I are hosting an open studio event to celebrate and showcase member work of Fluid Media group. Please stop in. All the artwork is for sale. We’ll be at 3151 12th Street, 2nd Floor, Long Island City, NY 111106: Friday, June 24, 5 – 8pm Saturday, June 25, 12
Power describes many phenomenon in our world. It is the stuff we’ve harnessed to brighten the night, clean our clothes, run our technologies. It is also a dynamic that informs many of our interactions. Click to open the current newsletter that features a rumination on power. https://mailchi.mp/fitzgeraldart/after-dirty-powe
Paint plumes as it will when given a fluid form. Here are a few thoughts about working with fluidity. News of the month as well: click open this link to continue reading. https://mailchi.mp/fitzgeraldart/wantonforms Get in touch if I can assist you with something. Enjoy the unfolding spring.
It’s early Spring when the crocus appear in the garden. Their slender green stems are wise: hugging the ground for its warmth, taking in the sun’s nutrition. In my current newsletter I introduce two new trees as I also revisit earlier work centered on trees. Click to open the newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/fitzgeraldart/markingtime Get in touch if
At this time perhaps we all are wishing to be called away by the wind.If that won’t do, we can be called away by artwork. There are two distinct threads of art making, and artwork, that are each connected to the deep capacity we have to recognize – to re-member, and re-connect phenomena within our
The end of the year is not far off. What have you been putting off? Will it carry over to 2022? In this current newsletter, I introduce some new work. It was produced in the late 1990’s, but never marketed. You can see images of these large monotypes in the newsletter: click to open this
