“Artists and scientists are activists. They look at the world as changeable and they look upon themselves as instruments for change. They understand that the slice of world they occupy is only a fragment but that the fragment is intrinsically conne...

Gospel. Hands. Tenderness. Early this year, I took writing class with Jeannine Ouellette. We wrote short essays inspired by Ross Gay’s Book of Delights. We were encouraged to find and write about a delight every day, as Gay had done in writin...

Picasso was the first major painter I ever experienced. I first saw his work when I was sixteen and journeyed to my first major museum during my first trip outside of the United States. I traveled to Spain in 1987 to spend a summer in a Spanish langu...

Figures, Memories, and Tapestry EXERCISE 004 — EMBODY THE FIGURE [Choose a picture, embody the pose in the picture, and describe the experience of embodying the pose.] On bedrest, roughly a week after foot surgery, teaching myself to p...