Welcome to After the Art’s sixteenth issue.
We hope you enjoy these three essays:
“The Mechanics of Quilting” by Melissa J. Elbaum
“Interiors” by Kimmo Rosenthal
“Day 3 Madrid” by Adam Berlin
We’ve also started a Facebook page, which you can follow for posts about future issues as well as exhibits, articles, books, essays, and sites that might be of interest. Continue reading “After the Art — Issue 16 — June 2022”
by Melissa J. Elbaum
My beloved grandmother was a prolific quilter. In her one-hundred-eight-and-a-half years, she quilted thirty masterpieces. Her quilts mirror the full color spectrum, fashioning measurements of energy into intricate geometrical patterns. If the material is examined carefully, hints of her life appear. Continue reading “The Mechanics of Quilting”
by Kimmo Rosenthal
In the silence we are seized with the sensation of something deep, vast, and boundless.
The house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. Continue reading “Interiors”
by Adam Berlin
In the Thyssen Museum, portraits of the patrons 3-life-sizes big, Senor and Senora, Spanish Os and As, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, we walk 1 floor together (3 of us) then it’s impossible so Katherine goes first while I carry him Continue reading “Day 3 Madrid”
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