A Q&A with Texas artist Jorge Losoya.
Revived
Q & A with Brianna Keeper
On the water with Texas painter and boatwright Brianna Keeper.
The Real Sickness in America
What vile alchemy has enabled many Americans, with Texans in the vanguard, to conjoin a stated belief in God with a total commitment to a serial liar and a reliance on instruments of death? Even when children are murdered in the nation’s schools, the same kind of assault weapons used...
Nine Haikus
Marking the seasonsUsing the phenologyOf motorcycles * * *“Pencils down now, please,”Armed men politely order.“There shall be no press.” * * *Former hardware storeNow shuttered up and closed downMom and Pop are gone * * *Looking and seeing —People often confuse themThey are not the same * * *Stranger but strongerThe elephant in the roomGoes... Continue Reading →
Tenderness and Rot, or Why I Should Be Allowed to Burn Down the Peabody
The Yale Peabody Museum’s ornithology laboratory struggles mightily to enforce separation between “observer and observed,” as all good Western scientists must. And yet, mocking the laboratory’s attempts at sterility, the smell that lingers inside refuses any such boundaries. The bitter, stale scent infused my hair and skin as soon as...
My Parents Go In Swimming
White slow-turning lightcan see the foaming shoalsso why not the swimmers from fifty years ago.It warns off the night boatsbut why not restore the oneswho made so much of sunshine,whose footprints shaped the nearby beach, whose splashing camewith all the necessary happiness.A man watches from the headland of a boy.His beam is not near strong enough. More... Continue Reading →
Fetch
"Does anybody have a maxi pad? Aunt Flo came to visit, like a thief in the night." “What? Shh,” I say, alarmed. Thank goodness Dad isn't in the van with Denise Stitcher screeching about her period, as though this is something people talk about. Our family does not discuss bodily functions. Not peeing, pooping, farting,... Continue Reading →
Permanence
about this piece PermanenceFrom the Series: Archeologies of the environment2014Oil on canvas80 x 120 cm Archeologies of the environment, is a series of oil paintings by Fernanda Morales Tovar, which arises since 2014 and gives continuity to her current work. In this, Morales explores the analogies and dialectics existing in the environment that promote the... Continue Reading →
Vestiges
about this piece VestigesFrom the Series: Archeologies of the environment2015Oil on canvas85 x 100 cm Archeologies of the environment, is a series of oil paintings by Fernanda Morales Tovar, which arises since 2014 and gives continuity to her current work. In this, Morales explores the analogies and dialectics existing in the environment that promote the... Continue Reading →
Encastre
about this piece EncastreFrom the Series: Archeologies of the environment2017Oil on canvas84 x 110 cm Archeologies of the environment, is a series of oil paintings by Fernanda Morales Tovar, which arises since 2014 and gives continuity to her current work. In this, Morales explores the analogies and dialectics existing in the environment that promote the... Continue Reading →