Beautiful and Strange

Photo by Anthony Wood These photos by Anthony Wood caught my eye and my imagination. I found them to be strange and beautiful- surreal and evocative. This is Photoshop-ing that avoids over-use and shows how one can make fine art with the same tools that so often stray into harshness...

BBC - Creative Minds 'Mimic Schizophrenia'

Here is a provocative article from the web site of the BBC based on some current research. But don't jump to any conclusions before reading the article. Does it suggest that creativity is based on a deficit of brain function? Or that schizophrenia is creativity run amok? Is this another...

Where Poetry Begins

The most recent version of the Poetry Fridays email from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation is a beautiful and well-written essay by Martin Farawell, Program Director of Poetry, called, "Where Poetry Begins". I reproduce this essay below with the suggestion that, if this is at all of interest to you,...

Supernatural Thriller Features Art Therapist!!

I am excited and intrigued to see that a new book, Personal Effects: Dark Art , has been published, written by J. C. Hutchins and Jordan Weisman that includes an art therapist as a leading character. From Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. Hutchins, author of the audiobook podcast trilogy 7th Son,...