Tag: imagination
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Wild Symphony
Wild Symphony, paper collage, 2023 About a month ago, I decided I was going to learn to read Spanish. I had just finished reading the novel, The Snares of Memory (Esa puta tan distinguida), by Juan Marsé, and I liked it so much I wanted to read more of his work and others from that…
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On Imagination
The Sky Is Smiling, paper collage, 2022 To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. André Breton I think of my art as an articulation of my inner life. That all of the scenes that take shape in my collage art (and poetry, too) also exist within me. There…
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This must be the place.
This must be the place, paper collage, 2020 This post is formatted to reflect an original journal entry. 11/10/20 Had a significant insight into my own creative process. It happened on Sunday morning, as I was having coffee and reading one of John Muir’s Wilderness Essays. Experienced a flood of positive emotions as I was…
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On Fantasy
I’ve always been a daydreamer. In school, I was a quiet, bookish girl who spent much of her time staring out the window, doodling, or scribbling fragments of poems and short stories in a secret notebook. (How many other young writers kept secret notebooks—the ones you covertly slipped into your real notebook, so you could…
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