Monthly Archives: July 2011

Patter Hellstrom’s Sublime Choreographies of the Centered Self

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I: Experience as landscape “Expressive Flow” is the title of Patter Hellstrom‘s upcoming exhibition of remarkable abstract paintings opening at The McLoughlin Gallery on August 4. The title is apt as it conveys  the psychological and oceanic quality of the … Continue reading

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The Specter at the Feast: Unpaid Debts and Unlived Life Break Through

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The “specter at the feast” is the thing that breaks the spell of jubilation.  The joy of the feast is timelessness. The specter appears and we are back in the terrible flow of time, replete with all the consequences of … Continue reading

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Metamorphosis: Photography and Mythic Portraiture

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In the Roman poet Ovid’s epic work Metamorphoses, the body is the focal point for exploring the terrors and mysteries of change. Gods take on a variety of shapes to communicate, seduce and destroy. Humans change gender, become animals and … Continue reading

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Making Tracks, Missing Traces: John Roloff’s Device of Grief & Wonder

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John Roloff, Elk Tracking Machine, 2010 What comes to mind when you hear the word trace? Do you think about it as a noun: the thing left behind, often inadvertently, as in “there were traces that she had been there”? … Continue reading

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