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We Hold These Truths….
Holding truths? What a sweet idea. What a lovable, comforting idea. What a beautiful rock to hold to cling to. And how unlikely it seems now. What truth? Where? There are lies around every corner,...
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just looking
Look up…Philippe Petit on a wire above the world. On his toes. Why? Save your breath. ”There is no why” he said. Image from here We all know there are times when words and thoughts get in the way....
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against all odds
—————————————-Greenlanders, life on the edge, image found here Here at the republic, we’ve been hearing it from all over the map: things have changed, people have changed whatever you were counting...
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the middle of nowhere
it’s always amazing to see what nature is up to when we aren’t there up there in the wildest places, the farthest places from our small lives, that’s where you’ll see what can happen without us. it is...
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Only Available in Black + White
So here at the end of the year/beginning of the year, we find ourselves thinking about what matters most/what matters least. Through all the buzz, all the fear, all the lunacy, all the loss, what...
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Profiling
Painters, photographers, and law enforcement officers have shown a lot of interest in capturing just one side of us, a side of us we don’t usually see. Italian artists working 500 years ago and more...
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clowns to the left of me jokers to the right
Clowns tell us a lot about ourselves and our lives. The best of them reveal some sadness or strangeness or both while doing their best to amuse us. The overall message is: you might as well laugh...
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Pen and Ink
Pen and Ink and Saul Steinberg. Found at Ah Magazine The art of the line is ancient. It is often instant and permanent. It is seductive. It is everywhere. It is drawings, it is maps, it is documents,...
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Wild Things: from the untamed edges of the art world
The world is (still) full of wild things, plenty of them pretty weird in appearance and habits. Yet we humans have never been satisfied with nature’s menagerie. Since way back when, we have imagined...
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Harry Gruyaert: “There’s very little thinking.”
Sometimes the best discoveries don’t require meticulous planning, a long journey, or special shoes. Sometimes you just have to see what’s in front of you. This is some of what Belgian photographer...
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by the sea, by the sea
Living by the sea can be a swell thing. Where we live, the breezes are mostly mild and scented with salt, sea shells, and mermaids. People, lots of people, choose to live in coastal cities, and they...
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I See Spots (2) Too
Here is a Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte (detail) (1884) for which we have Georges Seurat (b 1859) to thank. And we do, as do lots of people these days, but it did take a while for those...
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I See Spots
Above is an astonishing image, no matter what. The immediate appeal seems mostly from the shards of strong colour, each piece a bit different from any other, yet they can be grouped in families by...
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shadows: flat, black, and cool
Two dimensional, monochromatic, and featureless, shadows only exist because something else exists. They are totally dependent on it, the mothership, the object that CASTS them. Yet, to us, they...
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Trees in the City: Whose idea was this?
If you live on a street lined with tall leafy trees between you and the road, you probably either love them unconditionally, as we do, or wish they would be a bit tidier and keep their leaves (and...
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artists + glass: a long and bountiful alliance
Mr Jackson Pollock didn’t like to repeat himself, and he went out of his way to choose materials you might find down in the basement (e.g. black and aluminum enamel paint, expanded steel, string,...
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Why Foxes?
There is no accounting for some things–maybe most things. Like foxes. Sure, there are bound to be lots of learned people who can account for their successful presence in our century—a tidy tale of...
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Only Available in Black + White
So here at the end of the year/beginning of the year, we find ourselves thinking about what matters most/what matters least. Through all the buzz, all the fear, all the lunacy, all the loss, what...
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Caught in the Rain
Summer has arrived in our part of the world–long days, heat on your back, first morning coffee on the front step, dinner out on the back deck–so let’s talk about rain, lest we forget. Where we live,...
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small matters (part 2)
There is a lot to say, we think, about the value and attraction (and sometimes strangeness) of smaller things. It seems only right to dish out the goods in portions. Welcome to sm2. In 1952, the...
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